"Exclusive: #OpenAI to release #webBrowser in challenge to #Google #Chrome"
Great news everybody
Instead of Google suctioning up all of your personal info, now people can eagerly rush to have all of their personal info suctioned up by an #enshittification manipulation hallucination #AI interface
Personally, I'm waiting for #Thiel's #Palantir #web #browser! Woo hoo! (/s)
OpenAI pronta a lanciare il proprio browser web nelle prossime settimane. Sfida diretta a Chrome con un'interfaccia che:
Mantiene le interazioni in stile ChatGPT
Cambia radicalmente la navigazione web
Raccoglie dati utente come Google
AI search engine Perplexity has launched a web browser, Comet, which is currently available to $200-per-month Max plan subscribers and a small group that signed up for a waitlist. Here's more from @Techcrunch.
"The architectural view in which search, social, and browsing are distinct is a distraction that does not map to the experienced reality of most people and that is in fact conceptually arbitrary with respect to the tasks that people actually seek to accomplish on the Web. In a sense, we're missing the Web for the tabs."
@robin, 2023
The browser I use on Android (Fennec F-Droid) just switched my default search engine back to Goggle, and what's worse, completely removed Mojeek and Brave as search options. This is an anti-feature!
It would be great if F-Droid builds of Android browsers stripped out the code that pulls dick moves like this.
Great: the amazing Jacek Piszczek has released version 10.0 of his web browser Wayfarer for MorphOS which now is based on WebKitGTK 2.48.3, the latest stable version.
It's my idea, or #MicrosoftEdge is the best #Chromium browser out there?
Have you ever taken a detour inside a Web Panel?
The Home button has your back. One click and you're right where you started. 
»Firefox experimentiert mit neuer Suchmaschine:
Mit der neuen KI-Funktion möchte Mozilla seinen Nutzerinnen und Nutzern ermöglichen, dialogorientierte Antworten auf Fragen zu erhalten.«
Nutzt dies wer von euch schon und wie ist es zum nutzen? Wird dies evt auch von @librewolf übernomen und sind KI Suchmaschinen wirklich besser als bisherige? Ich bin skeptisch hatte dies aber noch nie genutzt.
#Spionage möglich:
40.000 #Sicherheitskameras hängen ungeschützt am #Netz
#Forscher haben Tausende von #Sicherheitskameras entdeckt, auf die mit einem #Webbrowser frei zugegriffen werden kann. Nicht mal Passwörter werden abgefragt.
Sicherheitskameras werden häufig eingesetzt, um besonders schützenswerte Orte oder Räumlichkeiten zu überwachen. Einige dieser Geräte sind aber offenbar völlig ungeschützt mit dem Internet verbunden, so dass jeder mit einem Webbrowser...
"... is a web browser rendering engine written in Rust, with WebGL and WebGPU support, and adaptable to desktop, mobile, and embedded applications."
Also #Verso, an experimental browser built on Servo;
As of today, my computer can __nicely__ read aloud for me !
I'm lazy, i read slowly, so i don't like reading, i skip a lot of articles
I have been looking for a solution for several months
@demiguise Here is a screenshor of my personal site's #Gopher version opened in #Lynx.
![[screenshot of the Gopher version of Gamliel Fishkin's personal site]](https://linuxrocks.online/system/media_attachments/files/114/474/427/330/659/333/original/b08c1d13f5bd9fd6.png "[screenshot of the Gopher version of Gamliel Fishkin's personal site]")
Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads | TechCrunch
"Perplexity is building its own browser is to collect data on everything users do outside of its own app to sell ads." Yikes...I'm not sure I'd want to install this even to *test* it.
Maybe in a VM, but there's no way I'd run this as a daily driver for a few weeks like I've been doing with other browsers.
Stuff a #Pihole in your #router because your #browser is about to betray you
You could be forgiven for feeling #webbrowser suppliers are actively working to make us trust them less.
#Mozilla bought an #ad company; this month, removed its promise not to sell your info.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/08/pi_hole_6_flyby/
Mozilla sells #ads, #Google limits blocking-time for stricter measures
Pi-hole takes over as your network name server, and silently redirects all web requests to known ad-server addresses to a #DNS sinkhole.
"It is now time to fix it for good. A new solution has been proposed: partitioning visited link history. This approach fundamentally changes how browsers store and expose visited link data. Instead of maintaining a global list, web browsers will store visited links with a triple-key partition:
- Link URL. The destination of the visited link.
- Top-Level Site. The domain of the main browsing context.
- Frame Origin. The origin of the frame rendering the link.
A link is only styled as :visited if it was visited from the same top-level site and frame origin (...) This approach guarantees isolation and works well with the web's same-origin policy. The system records only navigations initiated by link clicks or scripts—excluding direct address bar entries or bookmark navigations.
Key benefits of this model include: strong protection against cross-site history leaks, solving for good of many known side-channel attacks, support for meaningful styling within trusted, same-context domains, conforming to established web privacy principles and data protection regulations.
This feature is already implemented in Chrome (v132, behind a #partition-visited-link-database-with-self-links flag). I am confident that in 2025 we are going to have this privacy headache solved once and for all."
https://blog.lukaszolejnik.com/fixing-web-browser-history-leaks/
I am once again faced with the bleak irony of people who install onto their computer some 5 or 10 apps via FlatPak or Docker, including VSCode, each installed with their own entire copies of Node.js and Electron.js (differing only in their minor revision number), while also complaining about Emacs being “bloated” because it ships with a miniature web browser and fully-featured e-mail client.
Pulse Browser - an experimental Firefox fork that enhances focus and increases work productivity due to its Hyper minimalistic UI and built-in tools. https://archiveapp.org/pulse-browser/ #webbrowser #linux #osx #windows
I'm late to read the news, but I'm sad to see #Firefox / #Mozilla is turning into something I won't be supporting in the future.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/02/mozilla_introduces_terms_of_use/
Will need to find a new browser until #ladybird @ladybirdbrowser is released!
Any good suggestions? I will be checking out #Floorp, #Librewolf, #Seamonkey and #Waterfox
