Wow, I didn’t know iCab was still being developed. I remember it from like 20 years ago.
Its iOS app store page says it doesn’t collect any information, so that’s promising. The recent reviews as of version 11 aren’t great; lots of bugs apparently. I might try it nevertheless.
Thanks for the recommendation!
While the rendering engine (WebKit) is the same across iOS browsers, WebKit is an open source project. To my knowledge there isn’t any telemetry baked into WebKit that reports back to Apple or whomever about user identity or behavior; tracking would have to be added by the developers making use of WebKit for their browser, I think? So in terms of privacy, it should make a difference which iOS you select.
I have hundreds if not thousands of bookmarks; I’d like them to stay in sync between desktop and mobile and that requires the same browser on both platforms, no?
The main problem I’m having is finding a trustworthy iOS browser that does absolutely zero tracking of its users. You look at the privacy info on Apple’s App store pages for like Firefox, Brave, Vivaldi, DDG, and other privacy oriented browsers, and they say they collect this or that. Only Orion from what I can tell promises they collect nothing (whether that can be independently verified idk since it’s closed source).
I think this meme is referring to when Apple ripped out 32bit support in macOS a few years ago. I couldn’t use Wine anymore to play old windows games on my Mac after that update for example.
As Wi-Fi is a form of radio technology, we still basically do this today.