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Why we need Ladybird [audio] (changelog.com)
24 points by xwall 670 days ago
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22:10 "I think the web is going to be around forever. It's only getting bigger, more ingrained in our life and more powerful, and I think we need something that's not controlled by Google."
Ladybird has definitely picked a hard path for itself, 3 of the richest software companies on he planet (Google, Apple, Microsoft) all chose to start with an existing codebase to create a browser that they control.
"We currently have 6 paid full-time engineers working on Ladybird" - and onboarding another one. That's quite the achievement in such a short amount of time.
... transcript?
I'm not wasting 103 minutes of my life to find this out.

Tell me in one sentence or GTFO.

I haven’t even heard the podcast, but it’s got to be: browsers made by an advertising company don’t have your best interests at hard, as evidenced by Chrome disabling unlock Origin and reneging on a commitment to disable third-party cookies. It’s not just Google, Mozilla, Microsoft and Apple are also advertising companies.