It looks like a very well built app to convert web pages to lite apps. It also seems to be based on Firefox and seems to include something similar to that of Firefox Multiaccount Containers for every webapp, on top of an adblocker. Seems very neat. Just wondering if anyone knows anything about whether or not it is open source and how the privacy and security potentially is?
Edit: I am aware of Native Alpha but it is very ugly with bad interface and hasn’t been updated in two years, and also doesn’t really sandbox apps to my knowledge like this does.
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I only know of hermit and native alpha. 1st time hearing about this. Compared to hermit appears to be only 2 years old vs 10 years for hermit.
There are lots of mention of Native Alpha and hermit in the description. Very strange I never found this option in the 2 years it existed on the play store. Being based on firefox sounds neat. Good for everyone who wants their user agent to be firefox everyone even in lite apps.
Would give it a shot and see what it holds. But, I don’t see myself switching from hermit.
I see there are two veesions of hermit. Paid and free, what is the difference between them?
The paid app is the unlocker. It does not do anything by itself. You can check the features on the website or see the play store description.
https://hermit.chimbori.com/features/
“Joke” done. Have you tried Hermit, OP? It has containers too. Kinda pricey though.
Hermit seems nice as well. Only thing is I did a couple of privacy tests on both apps and the one that I discovered seems to do a better job at protecting my privacy when using the websites. But I would be curious to know what the privacy implications of the apps themselves are (WebApps and Hermit)
It comes on sale somewhat often, I saw a sale post the other day on Lemmy somewhere.
There’s also Native Alpha on Fdroid which does something similar
edit: decided to give it a try. Interestingly, both Lemmy and Mastodon are listed in the “popular” section of the built in apps
If you remember which community that was, please let me know. Still missing a replacement for r/androidappsales!
For sure! Turns out I was subscribed to two, the later being an automated mirror of a subreddit
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There’s also a community for the Hermit app it turns out [email protected]. That one seems abandoned
Thanks a lot!
And now we wait…