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Comment by cookiengineer

11 hours ago

> I'd be genuinely curious what you could switch to that still has MV2 because, AFAIK, Firefox is the last holdout.

My last hope is ladybird right now, I don't use Firefox or Chrome as my main browsers anymore, and use them only within temporary sandboxes. Without history, without cookies, without logins for the most part.

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pogue  10 hours ago

You use ladybird as your primary web browser? And it works?

  • cookiengineer  10 hours ago

    For the most part, it doesn't. It's not a consumer ready browser, but a pretty nice little rendering engine. If you use ladybird as bindings, it's a bit unstable right now because they are refactoring a lot of parts in the codebase.

    I built my own tools on top of it, mostly to use internet websites and selfhosted kiwix archives with my local agentic env.

    I guess what I am saying is that I don't have a primary browser anymore. Not a browser where I just can trust it that it doesn't do shit with my data. Being able to selfhost kiwix is a superb internet experience if you build your own search dashboard for it, I can fully recommend it.

    Have to merge my things upstream with ZIMdex when I have the time (probably around June).

    [1] WIP https://github.com/cookiengineer/exocomp

    [2] WIP https://github.com/cookiengineer/zimdex

    • tgv  7 hours ago

      It seems to me that --unless you really, strictly compartimentalize your browser usage--, using multiple browsers will only supply your data to more parties.

el_io  10 hours ago

Ladybird supports MV2? I had no idea they have extensions.

  • laserbeam  10 hours ago

    Ladybird is many years away from being usable by a casual human. The hope is it turns out to be a great browser eventually.

Zardoz84  8 hours ago

Good luck with the main developer being in the alt right.

  • cookiengineer  7 hours ago

    > Good luck with the main developer being in the alt right.

    Sources? I can't find anything on that via google/ddg (Germany)

    edit: oof.

    [1] https://drewdevault.com/blog/Cloudflare-and-fascists/

    • lukan  1 hour ago

      Oof indeed. Now I know that Kling is indeed open towards some alt right positions, but I really wouldn't call him a fascist for that. Conservative probably, but conflating conservative positions with fascism is probably not helpful in the fight against the real fascists.

      But also oof to .. some other items there from the blog. Apparently rsync is now banned from the list of acceptable software, because they do not ban LLM's completely?

      https://drewdevault.com/blog/rsync-without-rsync/

      Sounds like you will never run out of problems, with a ideology like this.

    • imtringued  4 hours ago

      Isn't this blog post more evidence that drewdevault became an extreme leftist?

      I mean he's basically going off a checklist of leftist stereotypes here and trying to check as many of them as possible.

      Meanwhile the other guy he's criticising is literally just a standard right-wing conservative, not far right, not alt right, just the regular kind. The far right I've seen is basically beyond the idea of being merely anti-immigration, they demand ICE style mass deportations immediately and in every country.

      If both of them met in a bar through sheer coincidence, I'd expect drewdevault to start the fight.

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