Norton Neo Browser

user2722

Don't forget privacy policy. Norton is owned by Avast owner which sold data for ads.

miohtama

Would you trust this company? Symantec / Norton: • Longstanding consumer complaints about aggressive upselling, scare-style scan warnings, auto-renewal, and hard-to-cancel billing • Product often came preinstalled on PCs; many users treated it as unwanted bloatware • Mixed reputation: lab detection scores often decent; customer-service and billing scores often poor • 2011–2016 class action (Symantec and Digital River): alleged hidden “download insurance” / extended download service added at checkout; settled for about $60 million • Canadian class action over alleged defects in an older Norton “decomposer” component (software sold roughly 2010–2016); later settled for tens of millions • 2013–2022 Columbia University patent case: jury found willful infringement of malware-related patents and awarded $185 million; case later settled • False Claims Act / GSA contracting: Symantec accused of hiding extra commercial discounts from the U.S. government; 2023 trial findings plus a 2024 Gen Digital payment of $55.1 million to satisfy the judgment LifeLock (bought by Symantec in 2016; later NortonLifeLock / Gen Digital) • 2010 FTC settlement: about $12 million for deceptive identity-theft advertising • 2015 FTC action: about $100 million after LifeLock violated the 2010 order (weak security program and more false claims) • Recurring criticism that protection/reimbursement marketing overstated what the service actually did • 2022–2023 credential-stuffing attacks on Norton Password Manager / LifeLock logins using reused passwords from other breaches; company said its own systems were not hacked; thousands of accounts had some personal data accessed and hundreds of thousands of logins were targeted NortonLifeLock / Gen Digital • 2021–2022 Norton Crypto: Ethereum miner bundled with Norton 360; company said it was opt-in and took a cut; users and researchers criticized it as inappropriate in a security product; later dropped • Ongoing complaints about subscription renewals, refunds, and support after the Symantec → NortonLifeLock → Gen Digital rebrands • Privacy/tracking investigations (alleged sharing of site/app data with third-party analytics such as Quantum Metric); not a final court finding • Separate consumer suits alleging LifeLock failed to alert users or honor “dollar-for-dollar” identity-theft reimbursement promises

7734128

If they were not using actual Norton trademarks I would have thought this was a parody. Why would anyone use Norton? It's just malware.

suck-my-spez

Quite a lot in their privacy policy for a “private” browser

d3Xt3r

Of all the new things in 2026, I wasn't expecting friking Norton coming out with a web browser. Too bad that it's yet another Chromium skin, with integrated AI that no one asked for. Not that I expected any better from Norton tbh, but it's a shame to see a beloved brand from my childhood days fall so far from grace. Norton Utilities for DOS/Win9x used to be the bomb... NCD, NDD, SPEEDISK etc. My last good memory of it was introducing me to Darude Sandstorm. But now... sigh.

andrewstuart

So this is from Symantec?

utopiah

Chromium based, not open source.

sajithdilshan

So everyone is upvoting this post to shit on Norton?

wiether

I know that the current state of affairs with the AI labs bros can make the old antivirus villains look like lambs; still, I don't see how anyone would like to have anything to do with those guys.

maximevince

The only good Norton is Norton Commander!

eknkc

I wouldn’t use an immortality serum if it came with Norton branding. How come it is still a thing?

sreekanth850

i don't need all this shit, can i have a modern browser that run in 10 mb ram and doesnt multiply the memory with tabs. something like kmelon but works on all sites.

hollowturtle

Hard to find a site this less interesting, for a product this less interesting from a company that i would never trust

fortyseven

Given the reputation, who the hell is the audience for this crap?

lthi747

The only useful norton software was the Norton Ghost

cheschire

Doesn’t Brave offer most of those features?

andrea76

I really miss the times of Pete's Norton Utilities for DOS.

rock_artist

Norton is very heated in the comments here. But even separating this concern. Personally, the landing page itself hurts my trust of the goal. Why? When we think of a browser, before anything. We want something that feels snappy and performant. Even if the browser IS snappy. the fact that this page feels unresponsive in a way on my MacBook Pro M1 Pro. already raises concerns of performance. For my sanity, I've tried Vivaldi's website, Brave's website. All feels "light" and scrolling is a breeze on Safari. Those are just my few cents, but I'm pretty sure others might feel the same when making a landing page for any product where it should feel responsive.

OroPla

What an evil website. Just navigating to it deleted the history, so I couldn't navigate back to hackernews. Ctrl+L wouldn't highlight the navigation bar, either and instead closed the tab.

fai5a1

The scrolljacking website is so annoying. That alone is enough to deter me from this product.