Zero Permissions Required; Some Permissions Optional

Basic Features require Zero Permissions

Hermit requires absolutely no permissions to work. That means you can set up Lite Apps, run them, and use as many features as possible without granting a single permission.

Compare this to many other browser apps that refuse to run unless you grant it access to sensitive information such as your Device ID, or SMS, or all sorts of permissions unrelated to the core functions of the app, that are used solely for tracking and advertising purposes.

With Hermit, the basic browser features work with zero permissions.

Advanced Features require Relevant Permissions

But we don’t want to stop at building a basic browser, we want to make it a full-featured browser.

So if you do want to use any of the advanced features, you must grant additional permissions that are relevant to the feature.

For example:

• Location: if a web site wants access to your location, Hermit must have app-level permission to Location so it can grant web-page-level permissions to the site in question.
• Microphone and Camera: Hermit can even run Skype (Video Calls) as a Lite App, and good luck trying to do a video call without access to a user’s microphone and camera!
• Photos & Videos: Required only when you want to upload photos to Facebook or Instagram. If you never do that, Hermit will never ask for that permission.