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I didn't really check the code, but I'd be interested to know if it uses quic and if the connections are eliminated based on registered encryption keys.

this way it might be a bit easier to self host

Leanstral 1.5 22 days ago

These guys don't answer emails. Same for qwant.

Sample of two, but I'm assuming french companies don't like to being contacted n English.

too little too late.

Andreas already said it in the latest video: ladybird has a basic and fast Implementation for content blocking in the pre-alpha version.

Mozilla just shows a disconnect from reality if they start working on it now, in 2026. But this is nothing new, they had a disconnect from their users for years... reflected in their market share.

wouldn't this apply everywhere?

let's say agriculture. if you make one tone of tomatoes, one family cannot consume this in a year without becoming red. so should farmers also give it for free?

what about artists? it's not that their work even has a utility function...

I meant it's fine for others to want to move faster and hire more people (like Google). just replying to your sentence. it's fine for others to want things different...

About ladybird, I think it is quite a good benchmark:

- they have accomplished a task many thought impossible in the modern world

- they accomplished it while having a handful of people

- they had a fraction of resources compared to both google and Mozilla. only about a year ago they had few hundred of thousands as support money to get them started.

The engine may not be finished yet. may not be as performant as the other two. but they did a 3rd engine. and given 10% of the budget Mozilla has, they would progress much more. Ladybird Team has shown how everything about Mozilla is mismanaged and simply broken.

that's fine.

point is that Mozilla is wasting money and having 4000 people working on chrome may not be the correct benchmark.

take the reference of ladybird.

in a couple of years they built the engine from scratch. it's going to soon enter Alpha. how many people from ladybird built that engine? about 10?

all while everyone has said that modern web makes this task impossible

we were also sad. still the browser I ever used.

but, maybe the company didn't adjust well? maybe it was a bad time to do this, but ladybird is not a big company and they seem to be progressing well.

webassembly is not an alternative to Js. if someone else said it, fine, but I didn't.

the reason why I didnt is because I despise JavaScript and was hoping that webassembly would give an alternative. which never became an alternative.

with embedded you are arguing for my point. you say sometimes there are alternatives (maybe depending on the platform). sometimes not. you can change platforms as well. that's fine. sometimes is very much different from none. and we have none for the web.