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Hello guys, today I wanted to talk about a project I deeply care about and I'm actively contributing to, as I believe its good for everyone, including privacy concerned users

Ladybird Browser

This browser comes from the project "SerenityOS", and has since evolved and separated from it. The founders are Andreas Kling, and Chris Wanstrath. The main goal of this project is to create a browser from scratch, avoiding chromium, gecko, etc. The main keypoints that should be of interest for Privacy Oriented Users are the following:

  • Ladybird lead (Andreas Kling) states "We're not monetizing users, in any way. This is uncharted territory for browsers. So we're not going to do any default search deals. We're not going to do cryptocurrencies or try to monetize user data, just sponsorships and donations"

  • While** Ladybird will implement current web standards including cookie handling and tracking mechanisms for compatibility**, the browser's philosophy puts the user in control of these decisions, not the company. The browser won't have built-in incentives to encourage data collection since it doesn't profit from it.

  • It aims to be "free from advertising's influence" Ladybird, representing a shift away from the current web ecosystem where users like us are the product. This allows the project to implement privacy features without worrying about harming advertising partners or revenue streams.

As of now, the project has hired several developers with money coming from donations, from partners such as FUTO, Shopify, Cloudflare, among many, and is also seeing lots of volunteer activity on github. So well, if you like the web having more diversity and us having another alternative to google, check them out https://ladybird.org/

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[-] drosophila 40 points 2 weeks ago
[-] 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago
[-] tocano@piefed.social 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

This graph is terrible for proving your point. Which browsers are ... ?

  • building a new engine and/or rewritting old code; instead of just being another fork/reskin of browser xyz;
  • still active, with expectations of continuing for the next few years; with funding from people and companies;
  • doing rapid advances towards being a good enough replacement of Chrome, Firefox, Safari;

This graphs says nothing of that.

edit: autocorrect

[-] 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I mean, i could have included a link to wikipedia "list of web browsers" if I wanted to provide all that information. Its not hard to find.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_web_browsers

Enjoi reading about all 135 or so browsers in that list.

[-] dsilverz@calckey.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

@9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world @drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone wow, I knew Lynx was old, but I didn't know how that old, thinking how it's older than NCIS Mosaic! TIL

Also, why did it stop at the beginning of 2023? Shouldn't the line for Lynx continue up to nowadays? Lynx still exists nowadays, there's even a Lynx 2.9.2 released on May 31, 2024.

[-] 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Thats just the way the cookie crumbles. Too much to keep up with ig. Im sure this graphic will be updated to a 2025 version at some point.

this post was submitted on 22 Sep 2025
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