No clue, it's working fine and meets all the criteria for a basic android browser.

Didn't even think of Bill Gates since he stepped down from his leadership position in 2008. I didn't realize he was still a board member til 2020 (just looked that up) so I guess yeah, it's got a pedo associated.

That makes me sad.

And yes, I have been living in a hole. For my own mental health I don't look at news beyond my state's borders because I'm highly reactive and get in fights in the comment sections.

Have you been living in a hole or something? Bill Gates was buddy buddy with Epstein, flew on the Lolita Express and everything, absolute scum

TIL kiwi browser:

I was very confused to see cinny on this list, but it wasn't, it was a defunct browser:)

I'm sorry did I miss something? Why is edge a pedo browser?

dude, it's a browser... relax

You’re fucking insane if you think Edge has ever been good, it has been a buggy piece of shit since its introduction, everyone who worked on that shitty pedo browser deserves to be bung by a crane for their crimes against humanity

Why is Chromite once great?

Not to mention the brave cofounder.

https://lemmy.world/comment/21269260

I can identify like 1/3 of them... can we have a list?

Vivaldi has the original Opera browser heritage before Opera was acquired by Chinese conglomerate. The Presto browser engine is long dead, but the Vivaldi team are the authors of it. That counts fore something.

No love for the old magics? Lynx browser is the oldest maintained browser I know of, all the way back to 1992.

no Internet Explorer?

Brave and Vivaldi: closed source bullshit.

Brave being the worst with shitcoins and manipulating content.

uBlock Origin?

A webview wrapper and thus using Blink, chrome/chromium's engine.

Via uses the built-in WebView renderer included on the Android platform.

And it's proprietary!

I'll give ladybird a go sometime, but I'm peeved that they totally omitted librewolf.

Depends on the spec/implementation. If it's random generated tokens then I imagine they're not [necessarily] one per user. You could generate an arbitrary number and get new ones arbitrarily, regularly.

Without some technical information, with only this press release, we can't tell.

Isn't that a fingerpriting goldmine? I haven't given it a lot of thought, but most of the mechanicms I can think of will lead to it being somewhat trackable, especially if paired with IP.

Private Access Control Tokens (PACT) are designed to allow sites with strong knowledge of “personhood” to issue anonymous tokens.

A centralization of authorization. So that's why Google and Microsoft are interested.

If it's open enough, could still be a net-positive.

Depends on the mechanism though. Too weak and it can be automated and misused, losing "it's a human". Too strong and there's more concerns about privacy, control, and centralization of the selected auth providers and browsers making the selection.

Maybe hosters could use their own trust lists, like Firefox does for certs. But most will just go with the big and common default set.

I'd prefer skipping the anti-ai guards. But having to give a passwort to Google for it? I don't know. They'd have enough data on me to know I'm a human without it.

This is a press release. Is there more technical or concise information?

Uh, right... Cloudflare??

It's not that, though. It's 'use the current version of the browser you're already using'. Unless you're on, like, original edge, or Netscape Navigator, or smth else crazy. Sorry to say, but purposefully using a very put of date browser is a stupid idea in most cases.

Yes that is true, however a warning "use at your own risk" would suffice rather than "you can not use the web anymore, upgrade to a major corp browser to use"

Yeah my thoughts exactly - it's called user agent string I think :)