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They’re aiming for “something the viewer can achieve themselves”.

99% of ex-Windows users won’t be going for Arch, Debian or Fedora. It’s supposed to be easy to get in, difficult to screw up.

Mate, we’re talking about the BROWSER MARKET.

Even assuming Ladybird somehow gains 100% of that market, completely kicking out anything Chromium related, it has ZERO bearing on who people choose for their host! Cloudflare currently has around 20% of that market, and if Ladybird - today - goes up to 100% share of the browser market, Cloudflare will still hold 20% of hosting!

You’re talking about some overarching Internet revolution, while the thread is about a single aspect of how people reach the Internet!

This is like saying “the duopoly that reigns the water is Maersk and Smartwater”, two companies that do completely different things that just happen to be related to water…

they have the capability to do more.

And you don’t think that financing a third party browser to break the duopoly is “doing more”?

Again: what does Cloudflare have to do with the browser market…?

You compared the Cloudflare situation to “taking money from Google” and added that due to Ladybird taking money from Cloudflare, they’re “not challenging the status quo”.

Ladybird being a browser has absolutely no bearing on webhosting and the only status quo it can challenge is in the browser market. Which implies that you think Cloudflare has something to do with the browser market.

But… they did blacklist Kiwifarms? In 2022.

Why?

How did the literal best DDOS protection on the planet and the provider of a very safe and secure DNS suck?

Remind me, which browser is Cloudlfare making?

Why is Cloudflare suddenly the enemy on Lemmy?

Ironically, we already had that - Microsoft’s first version of Edge was using their own engine. On release, it had the highest W3C compatibility score.

Google started shitting on it (including things like serving clear HTML version of Gmail because “the browser is outdated” if it detected the Edge user agent) and massive self-delusion campaigns of “Edge is just Internet Explorer” eventually killed the thing and forced MS to switch to Chromium.

I have Ladybird installed and I check it out every now and then, but I honestly doubt that a bunch of random developers will succeed where Microsoft failed. Unless Cloudflare somehow chips in and forces Google’s hand into compatibility, but I don’t know if even they are big enough to do that.