zlacker

>>reacto+(OP)
I am not a hopeful romantic, but the EU has been investing on vendor neutral web-browsers like Nyxt [0] and the UR Browser [1] through the Horizon Europe program. I doubt that legislators (at least in the EU) will view this as a positive development, assuming EU legislators know what they are doing. On the other hand, lobbying by big tech is still very much a threat.

[0] https://nyxt.atlas.engineer/

[1] https://www.ur-browser.com/

>>kykeon+fn
The big problem with many of the alternative browsers like the ones you mentioned is that they are powered by the Blink engine (it's one of the 2 options for nyxt). The overwhelming market-share of Blink and the institutional monopoly on its development is the biggest driver for introduction of anti-features like these. WEI for example, is being prototyped in it [1]. These anti-features make it into every browser that uses Blink. While some browsers like UR-browser and Brave disable many of these features, they still lend credibility to the blink engine.

We need to promote alternative web engines like Servo and libweb and browsers based on them. Many of these engines need a major push to be competent enough for daily use. Gecko is also fine - but building a new browser with it is said to be hard.

[1] https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/refs/he...