Sidekick has made my work more efficient for months. The tabs are quick to load as compared to Firefox or Chrome (for Google Drive, Outlook, and Overleaf), and Chrome extensions are compatible with Sidekick (e.g., leanlibrary). Psychological work-leisure separation is also achieved by separating the work browser from my regular browser.
This makes information security no less than an established hygienic demand. No wonder our standards for online safety become more and more pronounced. It is commonplace to encrypt passwords and care for online banking safety, but many people still use the online browsers as if they are safe by default.
The browser is founded by Dmitry Pushkarev, a Stanford Ph.D., ex-Amazon executive and an ADHDer. He founded Moleculo, a genome decoding tech, and ClusterK, a cloud computing optimizer, acquired by Illumina and Amazon.
Combining his expertise in bioengineering with computer science he launched the Sidekick project for focused online work and opposed the consumerist model of modern browsers. Sidekick is funded by Kleiner Perkins.
Learning from the experience of its ADHD users, Sidekick have introduced accurate solutions to improve deep-focus time, put your interfaces together, cut out the ad noise and enforce your privacy. People who have worked with Sidekick show better results in their everyday workflow. If you are looking for a safe, simple and user-oriented browser online, Sidekick is just the one.
Sidekick is built on top of the latest version of Chrome and supports all Chrome features and extensions. Sidekick is the ultimate solution for people with attention issues and for anyone who needs to focus online. However, as a browser focused on productivity, Sidekick adds:
Sidekick Private Browser is a free web browser sidekick that offers greatly enhanced security, both internally and externally. It works alongside your web browser, collects no information about you, and provides a large host of potentially useful privacy features. It is not a toolbar or a plug-in, leaving your browser in its normal state while quietly doing its work.
Sidekick Private Browser isn't exactly a browser of its own, but acts like one. It fits like a screen on top of your existing browser and provides its features without damaging the ones you already have. Some of these features, like private browsing with no recorded history, are already available in certain browsers (for example, Firefox's Incognito browsing does not record search history either). However, Sidekick also touts ad removal (which requires an extension in most browsers and is more difficult in others), one-click closure (for when people are looking over your shoulder), and other niceties. It also doesn't record any of your data and send it back to SaferWeb, its developers. However, it's not clear if Sidekick does certain things you'd want it to: most browsers today send back data to their developers unlike Sidekick, for example, but Sidekick may or may not prevent its "host" browser from doing so (which would be a great boost to privacy).
On the interface side, Sidekick does reasonably well. Because it's an overlay on top of your existing browser, using it should feel comfortable to anyone who has a little experience browsing the Internet. However, for best use, you may want to change Sidekick's settings when you start using it, and this can be difficult, particularly on mobile devices which the app was not designed for, or if you want to maximize your usage of all the app's features, instead of avoiding ads or keeping your history clean. In other words, Sidekick generally needs to be used to be effective, but it can do most of its work quietly after the initial investment of time. Altogether, this means it may not be the best way to protect your grandparents or children from the web's ads, but if it's set up correctly ahead of time, it should still work for that and just about anything else.
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