Hermit
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Pros
- Hermit is a nice lite browser, which allows you to save websites as mini apps which could replace the need to have YouTube etc installed
- I have converted tons of apps to Progressive Web App versions, and it allows you to turn the entire web into an app store, essentially.
- Hermit is just great in gernal and making "apps" of sites that thankfuly don't have one
- hermit, opens every website like a separate app.
- It's a web browser of sorts. It makes individual isolated web apps of particular sites. I use it for all social media — Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, etc. I use it for various stores such as Amazon, Audible, and eBay. Reference sites such a...
Cons
- Parent context: if you want one without ads and open source and don't have to pay for use https://github.com/cylonid/NativeAlphaForAndroid Reply: Same thing as hermit but less polished imo
- I got quite excited setting it up, but then it brought up a paywall to actually enable the containers. That's really bad because it didn't really disclose it on the store page.
- Is there a reason to use this over Hermit?
- Parent context: I know hermit has adblock, but can ublock be installed or extensions. If it had that I would turn it into my default browser. Reply: No to both, unfortunately. Hermit uses WebView internally which makes it tricky. I could...
- Parent context: I personally haven't found any sites that work better using Hermit than just using a browser or their app. If you don't mind can you reveal some sites you found that work better when used with Hermit? Reply: By 'better' I...
Sentiment
23 positive (82%) · 4 mixed (14%) · 1 negative (4%)
Trust + time weighted score: +83% · raw score 79%
What redditors said (10 of 28)
Hermit is a nice lite browser, which allows you to save websites as mini apps which could replace the need to have YouTube etc installed
I have converted tons of apps to Progressive Web App versions, and it allows you to turn the entire web into an app store, essentially.
Hermit is just great in gernal and making "apps" of sites that thankfuly don't have one
hermit, opens every website like a separate app.
It's a web browser of sorts. It makes individual isolated web apps of particular sites. I use it for all social media — Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, etc. I use it for various stores such as Amazon, Audible, and eBay. Reference sites such as Wikipedia. As a result, I don't have to have *any* of those apps; it's all Hermit.
Hermit (which alone can replace a ton of apps)
Using Hermit (or something like it) = less exposure to Google, ad blocking, sandboxing, custom user scripts (if that's how you like to roll), better organization of webapps (e.g. tags) & tracker protection.
Hermit — make free-standing webapps w/ adblock & privacy features
Hermit (turn URLs into privacy-friendly stand-alone webapps)
Shouldn't get banned. Its just a web browser. What it doesis create separate, isolated web browsers for sites. So make one for Fa ebook, and keep all your FB cooking and tracking isolated to its own browser. I use it for all social media, as well as Amazon and eBay etc., news sites, any "app" sites. It's super flexible. Tagging to categorize things, and so on.