CloudBrowser
Infrastructure
remote browser isolation
SHOW HN2019
51points
62comments
#805of 2,195 in 2019
Top 37%of 2019 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
2 positive, 11 neutral or asking, 5 mixed, 12 critical, out of 30 comments about the project. Thread score -0.34.
Execution: 0 for, 7 againstIdea: 1 for, 4 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Impressive that Quake 3 runs in the remote browser
From 1 comment
Full disclosure: I tried to get some chrome experiments (https://experiments.withgoogle.com/collection/chrome) to work in this and failed. With the exception of spin-dragging a…
slowenough on HN
Objections
Trusting the provider with browsing data is a security risk
From 2 comments
I totally get it. I've done something like it, browsing via RDP via ssh on a remote VM. A clone, which I can nuke when I'm done. But it's been on an anonymously leased…
mirimir on HNHow does performing all my browsing on someone else's computer whom I don't know make me more secure?
peterkelly on HN
Google CAPTCHAs block usage
From 2 comments
I couldn't pass google captcha, and all urls open a google search.
AbuAssar on HNHead over to Google, be greeted with ~10 captchas before being able to do anything.. yikes.
luastoned on HN
Isolation does not address downloads or email attachments
From 1 comment
I don't get the use-case for this. In other replies, you claim it's protection against "Ransomware, malware, virii, browser exploits, zero days", but all people are really doing…
tallanvor on HN
Requests
Ad blocking and better input handling
From 2 comments
I just got curious about hardcore "black hat" onion sites. And didn't want to get pwned. But yes, self hosting. It'd be really cool if you could do something analogous to…
mirimir on HNKeyboard input handling glitched out for me (from firefox 70, linux, connecting from an academic network with a gigabit link so stuff like input latency isn't usually a big deal…
erinaceousjones on HN
Fix SSL certificate chain
From 1 comment
I would recommend SSL Lab’s tests: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=free.cloudbrowser.xyz&latest > This server's certificate chain is incomplete. Grade capped to B.
oefrha on HN
Questions
How does the remote browser isolation work
From 1 comment
I just got curious about hardcore "black hat" onion sites. And didn't want to get pwned. But yes, self hosting. It'd be really cool if you could do something analogous to…
mirimir on HN
Alternatives named
Browsh
From 1 comment
There's also Browsh's demo services for purely text-based browsing: https://html.brow.sh/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21373756 `ssh brow.sh -t…
tombh on HN
any.run
From 1 comment
Dude! I don't care about cookie scrubbing but great idea. Heard of any.run? I use that a lot but their sessions are a minute long. Will definetly try your service but I hope you…
badrabbit on HN
WebPageTest
From 1 comment
This makes me think of the web performance power tool WebPageTest^1 (scriptable browsers that run in the cloud, and admin interface to manage their config, test parameters and…
chrisweekly on HN