[pilif]

>Puffin is a victim of Apple’s abuse. Puffin is a server-based web browser where web browser sessions are executed on the cloud servers

You and me know to not use something like this for any kind of sensitive site. But the common iOS user doesn’t know this. Apple is protecting their users and their platform.

It’s 2018. making a web browser where all traffic goes through the browser makers server, being unencrypted and then reencrypted is not acceptable any more (I would argue it never was, but then, back in the days of 9600 bits/s it was more excusable)

[joshuaturner]

Especially when you read their privacy policy, realize they're a Chinese company, and see this: "However, be aware of the possibility of surveillance by intelligence agencies in your home country and our home country."

[sjroot]

I wish this was higher up in the discussion. This is a very interesting point, not only when considering the Puffin browser, but considering this entire company. Their whole business model is to improve traditionally-local software by having data processed in the cloud. I have seen people affiliated with the company reply to other comments on this post but yours demands some sort of clarification. This company's real business is selling reports generated from the logs of its users' activity.

[pingyen]

Puffin is not a Chinese company.

[ac29]

They are based in Taiwan based on their job postings [0]. Whether or not Taiwan is technically part of China is up for debate, but the two are defintiely linked.

[0] https://www.cloudmosa.com/jobs/

[khc]

And somehow that's ok if it's webkit?