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Announcing the Ladybird Browser Initiative (ladybird.org)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Love the idea! Shopify as the highest tier sponsor? Not so much.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 5 months ago

I mean if they're gonna give money without demanding anything I'm sure no complaints from the devs.

Shopify or an exec there might find some value in avoiding Google owning the web, could maybe bring goodwill for the company, or they could just be looking for a write off.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm curious what issue you see with that? It seems like the project is only accepting unrestricted donations, but is there something suspicious about shopify that makes it's involvement concerning (I don't know much about them)?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (3 children)

My best guess would be that Shopify either care about the open Web or had some disagreements with Google.

I can't find anything shady on them, but maybe I'm looking the wrong places.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

My guess is they just want a high value backlink for their SEO performance 😉

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

found this

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/shopify-faces-increased-pressure-over-refusal-to-drop-breitbart-webstore/article33973253/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

While controversial, I think it's more a product of how insane US "politics" are.

They could be good guys even so.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago

They fired a lot of people and replaced them with AI: https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/04/how-shopify-bungled-its-latest-layoffs-and-made-employees-feel-like-npcs/

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Why? Shopify has been sponsoring stuff like community gaming events for a few years now.