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   pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Saturday, 08-Jun-2024 05:13:30 JST pistolero

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   > wasn't webkit developed by Apple,
   
   No, it came out of Konqueror. Apple picked it up for Safari, Google picked it up for Chrome, Brave uses it, even :edge: uses it now. It is still the only one that is available as a library, so you get luakit and Midori and uzbl, a lot of browsers based on it. (It probably should have been GPL'd.)
   
   > People say it's a privacy focused browser, but I've seen some bullshit about embedded crypto in it and this kind of thing always makes me be wary of a project.
   
   After the mob harassed Mozilla into chasing Eich out of the company for spending Hate Dollars, he started Brave. (His real crime is "inventing JavaScript" but I don't think most of those people mind that he did this.) They have a token, the idea is that you can enable ads and the revenue is sent to the site you are viewing and a cut to Brave and the idea is that it can be done anonymously. That got them threats from Google, as the browser ships with adblockers but then allows you to opt-in to ads that the browser runs.
   
   I do not use Brave because its build process is even fuckeder than Firefox/Seamonkey, and because I think Gecko-but-the-next-one still does a better job of rendering text than Webkit, so I use (in rough order of frequency) very hacked Seamonkey, mothra, somewhat hacked Firefox with everything disabled that lives in a chroot, w3m, extremely hacked but also very old Firefox that lives in a chroot and has JavaScript disabled and mainly exists for a couple of extremely specialized uses, netsurf (Plan 9 version), lynx.
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