Considering that the two projects funded by Cloudflare are headed by known bigots (Andreas Kling and DHH), it makes me distrust Cloudflare even further.

As the top comment on the Hacker News thread notes,

Cloudflare clearly wants to move us to a future where only approved browsers are allowed to access the web... an independent open source web browser is obviously against that ethos.

I'm suspicious on that basis alone.

I'm hyped as long as Ladybird supports uBlock Origin; hoping it's technically feasible.

When it incorporates something like TreeStyleTab, I'll look into it, horizontal tab bars are just silly - most have widescreen displays and content is usually in narrow columns.

Really hoping this project goes well and has a strong start.

I'm out of the loop, I thought cloud flair was a good company

Cloudflare has announced its sponsorship of the Ladybird browser, an independent (still-in-development) open-source initiative

Is it still independent?

This is very encouraging:

Ladybird uses a new browser engine called LibWeb that is being created from scratch by the development team.

Browsers that rely on Chromium / Blink rely on Google. Firefox relies on Google for its funding, so any browser based on Gecko relies on Google. If they can make a browser engine that has rough feature parity with Chromium but doesn''t rely on Google that's very healthy for the web.

challenge the status quo by partnering with the status quo...

ladybird browser coming up with status quo integration so they challenge status quo.

it's like these browser devs have no idea what people actually want in a browser.

You are not much challenging the status quo by partnering up with the NSA.

Challenge the status quo in a Snowpiercer fashion.