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Puma Browser (Developer Preview) — Privacy focused browser with a new way to pay for content
The ad-driven business model turned the web into a vicious, snooping, clickbait-driven distraction machine.
We'd like to deliver better incentives for high-quality content creators and offer users a premium, private, and distraction-free browsing experience.
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@stephenchip awesome! Sent a TestFlight invite. Let us know what you think!
Dope idea! What made you choose Coil specifically? And what problems did you run into as a user that drove you to build Puma?
As a user, my biggest frustration comes from the annoying advertisement world. Every time I try to consume some interesting content online I get hit with a paywall or an ad popup, or an 'ad blocker' blocker pop up and that experience is frustrating. The idea here is to provide a non-intrusive experience to someone consuming the content, yet still reward the content creators by establishing a direct payment chanel between them, as opposed to going the advertisement route. This opens up a whole new business model as well as user experience for any content online. Whether it's paying for streaming higher quality video or getting a more content from an article that is "web monetized" or in general, eliminating ads from your experience
@bitomule Coil uses an open standard to pay websites so anyone can simply include a meta tag in their site to get paid.
Visitors could be running Puma browser or another browser running Coil's extension or some other browser/extension that makes payments based on the standard.
@bitomule @adrianhopebailie But doesn't Brave also work in a similar way?
What's the catch?
@bitomule @ruslan_vasylev i dont think Brave works the same way.
Because the standard is open there is no special relationship between the website and Coil.
A user could use a different provider and the website would still get paid
@bitomule @adrianhopebailie i’ve personally never heard about Coil, can you go into more detail about it? I know I can just Google it but it would be interesting to to read a description written by a person familiar with it.
@bitomule @adrianhopebailie @anna_0x Anna, sorry for the delay – here's a couple of blog posts that explain Coil really well:
https://medium.com/coil/coil-bui...
https://medium.com/interledger-b...
Quick note that Apple is a bit slow in approving the latest TestFlight build so if you keep the app open for a bit and then force-quit it, it should have the latest version (thanks to @exponentjs ). Let me know if you have any questions!
I'd like to sign up to your mailing list, but your website is broken when I have anti-tracking enabled in Firefox. If I turn off the anti-tracking feature, and put in a fake email, the email signup works.
Given Puma is an anti-tracking browser product, I really hope you fix this so I can sign up for your mailing list and try out Puma :D
@dietrich zomg, how did I miss this 🤦🏻♂️ Yeah, we're using Mailchimp's scripts which get classified as trackers. DM me your Apple ID for TestFlight and I'll add you? Or you can download it on App Store but we haven't announced it yet 🤫
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