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by roschdal 5 days ago
"If you're not paying for the product, you are the product."

A proprietary web browser allows investments and allocating resources to browser development where the funds go towards the browser development. The browser source code rights are protected and owned by the developer. This model is honest and transparent.

The alternative is the Google Chrome model where the users are constantly under surveillance and advertising monitoring, which is worse overall, in my opinion.

> written in C, in 2026.

C is a wonderful programming language which people understand and which is portable to most platforms.