It’s also a for-profit company based in the USA if I’m not mistaken.

That rules out any kind of privacy and chances are they will start the enshittification process at some point, just like every other company offering a subscription service.

Kagi has released a new beta of Orion for Linux, a WebKitGTK-based port of its popular browser for macOS and IOS.

Is it popular though? I’ve never even heard of it. Of course that doesn’t mean it can’t be popular but I’d say I’m usually fairly up to date on the whole browser situation

I think I have reached stage 4: No hosting, off-site backup is on an external SSD in a locker at work

Why not? (Genuine question, maybe I can learn something about it I didn’t know)