This blogpost starts with me switching of my car radio, and ends with me writing a browser. There is some stuff in between as well.
Interesting take from the author; exactly the kind of thing that might start something big — or maybe it won’t, and that’s OK, too. Either way, I can appreciate the attitude!
(There’s also a discussion on the orange site)
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Thanks for pointing out Ladybird. It’s a pretty exciting project. But the author isn’t early in “announcing” anything. This isn’t a press release. He posted on his own blog about a pet project. That’s what the web is supposed to be. Not everything has to be for a big purpose or compete with everything else.
What we need isn’t browsers. What we need is an universal way to write extensions cross-browser.
Browsers themselves are easy to make. The problem is convincing extension devs to work with yet another codebase.
E: Think of it this way. There’s a lot of open source browsers out there.
Are you using any of them? Probably not.
Would you use one if it doesn’t have for example Bitwarden, Ublock Origin, Sponsorblock, and such mandatory extensions?
Users follow extensions and ease of use; not what’s good for them.
E2: A good project would be a builder extension for VSC for example, which compiles to all supported browsers.
Browser devs would then contribute to said extension via native-made plugins.
Cooperation of two fronts.
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Dumb question, will it be possible to create a browser that will trick the shitty new web into thinking you’re using an approved non-ad-blocking-browser while you still block the malware/ads?
Building adblock into the browser could enable better countermeasures for adblock detection, but uBlock Origin’s filters usually work fine in my experience. Hiding that adblock is being used is essentially just an arms race between adblock detectors and ad blockers.
I believe they’re asking about the DRM enabled browser tech that Google just rolled out and is pushing webmasters to support.
Ah, my bad. Bypassing such integrity checks should still be doable, either by reverse engineering and spoofing the communications between the browser and Google, or by modifying a “trusted browser” in a way that keeps it from detecting such alterations. It might not be very reliable though, as the internals could be changed arbitrarily with each update, and old versions blocked in the name of security.
