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Should I be excited about Ladybird Browser ? (lemmy.world)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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I hear it’s the first browser in a long while to come with a new engine. Completely independent and no revenue model. To me that would work well for privacy but I see no mention of privacy as any benefit. In fact I don’t see a privacy policy anywhere !

Is a goal of the browser to be telemetry free ? Should I as a person who cares about privacy be showing any interest?

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[–] 119 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 child)

tbh I'm more excited about Servo.org. They're also developing a fully independent browser engine and are funded by the Linux Foundation. Ladybird has corporate sponsors, so I'm a bit hesitant. But the more the merrier I guess.

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  • [–] 24 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Has something changed recently? Last time I looked at Servo it was just an engine, not a full browser. The servo project wants others to use their rendering engine to create browsers and use it as an alternative to Electron.

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  • [–] 25 points 5 months ago

    It's just the engine, but it's supposed to be a much more modern and smaller engine, so writing a new browser on top of it would be much easier than using gecko is. But you're right, it's not a browser. There is Verso as a prototype browser, but it's far from functional.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    and use it as an alternative to Electron

    Servo is a bloated GUI framework?

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    It's an HTML, CSS, JS renderer. The fact so many use Electron for bloated app GUIs doesn't mean that's what it is. Every browser is functionally the same thing as Electron (with even more stuff), but the use case requires it.

    This surely will be used to make bloated GUIs, but that's good if it replaces Electron and is faster. There is a use for Electron. It's just over-used.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 child)

    There is a use for Electron.

    Not sure i agree. They take a engine made to render a Document Object Model and shoehorn GUI widgets on it, no? At least, every Electron tool i've used was laggy, heavy and reserved GBs of RAM.

    And what, you count the major webbrowsers not as heavy and bloated?

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Well, one example would be a web browser. I'm sure you can at least agree with the utility there. I would say it could also be a useful tool for a prototype, but the problem is, once you have a working prototype, that tends to become the final product.

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