An agent that asks permission: what an ordinary hour with Maho feels like
The future of browser AI is not a smarter chatbot. It is a houseguest that knocks.
privacy
11 posts with the tag “privacy”
Permissions for an agentic browser, in practice
An agentic browser that does not ask is not safe. An agentic browser that asks too much is not usable. The middle is engineering work, not a slogan.
Maho vs Brave Leo: privacy plus AI, two approaches
Brave Leo and the Maho side panel both promise privacy plus AI. They reach that promise from opposite directions. One bundles, one brings your own.
Verify Maho privacy locally: the receipts
We removed every false ‘open source’ claim from this site. That left a question. If you cannot read the source, how do you trust the claims? This is the procedure.
Agentic browser failure modes (and how Maho handles them)
Agentic browsers fail in four shapes. The shapes are old. The defenses are not magic. Here is what each looks like in the wild and how the Maho host responds.
Browser fingerprinting defense: what we ship, what we do not
Most fingerprinting posts oversell the defense. This one is the opposite. Here is what Maho blocks, what Maho cannot block, and where the arms race still wins.
Browser history encryption: how Maho stores yours
Most browsers store history in a plain SQLite file. That is fine until the laptop is lent, lost, or imaged. Maho draws the encryption line one layer earlier.
Maho sync architecture, end to end
We described the shape of Maho sync in an earlier post. This is the long version. Real primitives, real wire format, real threat model.
Maho vs Firefox: two takes on user agency
Firefox built the user-agency case for the page-rendering era. Maho is building it for an era where the browser also runs models and tools. Both arguments are still right.
Sync without an account: the Maho relay model
An account is a price most browsers make you pay for sync. We did not want to charge it. This is how the alternative works.
Zero telemetry by default: what that actually means in code
Zero telemetry is a phrase that gets attached to a lot of browsers. This is the inventory of every endpoint, what we did with it, and how you verify.