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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

It isn't done yet. They are targeting 2026

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

My point exactly. It isn't ready and OP gave no context for why this relates to privacy. Better suited for the open source community on Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It is good for freedom of choice which ultimately is good for privacy

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

All I was saying is it isn't ready for use as a browser, it states on the github that it is in pre-alpha. It doesn't have the threat model goal of protecting fingerprintable metrics. Using this over security and privacy hardened firefox, even in the future once all the web standards are supported, will worsen your privacy. There needs to be intentional development of anti-fingerprinting measures.

I like choice, this isn't ready and OP should have added more context then just a title and a github. This is not a privacy browser, this is a tech demo.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don't think anyone was trying to imply that it was ready. Of course once it gets more mature then things like privacy will likely start to become more integrated.

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

Making a post in the privacy community with the tittle "truly independent browser" and a github link makes it seem that this project is related to privacy somehow. Nothing on the github has anything to do with privacy. There is no reason to believe the Dev has any intention to add privacy protection features. It is just another web engine. The only reason gecko has a lot of its anti fingerprinting is because of upstreamed features from the Tor browser, not because gecko's developers engineered them. So my question is still "how does this relate to the privacy community instead of the open source community".

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

I think some would consider the mere fact that it is independent, to be a positive for privacy in ways other than fingerprinting. I understand not everyone agrees, but I can see why some would think this.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

I posted the website a while back. By the way they got more than a million dollars in funding and are looking for sponsors.

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

*sets reminder now*