Samsung Internet Review

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Review of Samsung Internet powered by the Slant community.

Samsung Internet is a web browser available for Android devices with version 5.0 and above.

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Pros

Pro
Light and smooth + has chrome extensions

Pro
Can be installed on any Android devices

Samsung allows this application to be installed to non-Samsung Android devices starting with Android 5.0 Lollipop.

Pro
Sync with Google Chrome desktop app

Samsung Internet can sync the bookmarks and history to Google Chrome desktop app, where the Samsung Internet extension for Google Chrome is available.

Pro
Ad-blocking features

Samsung Internet supports Ad-Blocking features such as AdBlock Plus, AdBlock, AdGuard, Disconnect etc., but must be installed separately through Google Play, which these apps can also used in other browser which supports Ad-Blocking.

Pro
Clean GUI

Pro
Picture-in-picture (PIP) video

Samsung Internet supports picture-in-picture (PIP) video, which means the video that played in this web browser can be pop-out and visible in the Android screen even if the browser is minimized.

Pro
Do Not Track features

Samsung recently collaborated with Disconnect to include do not tracking features to prevent any websites to track with each other.

Pro
Notifications

Samsung Internet supports web notification from various websites such as Facebook, Telegram etc. which it will also works even if the browser is closed.

Cons

Con
It's Google

Data collector!

Con
Has the filter bubble

Like chrome, samsumg internet tracks you and filters your searches.

Con
Android only

Android dropped older iOS support after about SI 3.

Con
Not supported by Password Managers

BitWarden and LastPass do not work with the browser.

Con
No data saving mode

Unlike Google Chrome or Opera, Samsung Internet does not comes with data saving mode which is a disadvantages for users who relies on limited data usage.

Con
Only for Samsung Devices

While the competitors are vendor-agnostic, this browser is only limited on Samsung devices and can't be found anywhere else unless you pull the APK for the browser itself from the device.