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by logicallee 478 days ago
>Mozilla is banning the use of their Firefox browser for porn? That's going to hurt adoption.

If you'd like an alternative, the State of Utopia[1] could eventually finish building one.

Our browser does not currently have any usage terms (we are still writing our code of laws so it is too early to have terms and conditions), you can use it to browse whatever you want right now, but it barely works:

https://taonexus.com/publicfiles/feb2025/84toy-toy-browser-w...

(Read it, install the required libraries and run it with Python.)

The browser can access URL's and can load and display images. It currently doesn't include all of html, css, and JavaScript because that is too difficult for AI to do.

If there is interest we will continue to use state resources to create our state-run browser. It doesn't collect any analytics of any kind.

You might want to see some proof that State of Utopia will actually be able to make useful things for you:

- A complete free implementation of chess, it is fun for people and has no analytics or ads:

https://taonexus.com/chess.html

- a fun version that shows blunders, so you can practice not making serious mistakes:

https://taonexus.com/blunderfreechess.html

- an alternative rendering of it, with heatmaps on the squares:

https://taonexus.com/blunderfreechess2.html

- infrastructure:

here is a Skype/Zoom replacement that is free, peer-to-peer, has no analytics or terms of use, and supports video, audio, and chat via WebRTC. It is the Utopian communications infrastructure at the moment:

http://taonexus.com/p2p-voice-video-chat.html

If you want us to continue to put resources into a working browser, we believe that html, css, and javascript are very well-defined and AI will be able to autonomously make a complete state-run browser eventually.

At the moment the State of Utopia owns $221/month in AI and $180/month in compute. We are exploring the possibility of letting people get to Utopia faster by donating computing resources, but so far the feedback has been mixed. People would like to get free stuff without contributing anything themselves. This is fine, the State of Utopia will still happen, but since the State owns such little infrastructure at present, it will be a bit slower than if people contribute their GPU's.

Let us know if you are interested in the State completing our browser, and if so, we will put additional resources into it.

[1] a sovereign state where AI controls everything and owns state-run companies, giving out free money, goods and services to citizens/beneficiaries. It will be available at: https://stateofutopia.com or https://stofut.com when ready. Citizenship is free (compare Form N-400 to become a U.S. citizen which costs $640 plus an $85 biometric services fee, totaling $725). The difference between a company and a country is that companies exist to maximize the value of their shareholders whereas countries exist to maximize the welfare of their citizens.