two browsers that shouldn't be used as an alternative to anything:

  • brave
  • ladybird
@mawhrin I know not to use the former, I know almost nothing about the latter.
@Szescstopni the author (andreas kling) made transphobic noises earlier, also complained about pushing politics into software (when asked about not using male pronouns as gender-neutral default in documentation), and then recently went full fash supporting dhh.

@mawhrin @Szescstopni in addition, Kling has voiced support for the white replacement conspiracy theory and has already used copilot to vibe code parts of ladybird: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/12/23/firefox-browser-falls-to-ai-what-do-we-do-now/

e: shit I didn’t see that David pretty much already posted this, oops

Firefox browser falls to AI. What do we do now?

Firefox is my web browser of choice. It does a lot of things right. In particular, with the uBlock Origin add-on, it’s got the best ad blocking you can get on desktop and Android. Firefox is run by…

Pivot to AI
@zzt @Szescstopni yup, and considering that you can't defend dhh's blog without noticing it's basically fourteen words in longform…
@mawhrin @zzt @Szescstopni Ventilated prose meets Material UI meets Charlie K*rk.
@mawhrin Thanks. I really don't know now which browser to switch to from Firefox. Lynx or Netscape (not the new Chromium fork)?
@Szescstopni @mawhrin you can stick to firefox forks like waterfow or others. There are many.
@Szescstopni @mawhrin i guess librewolf if you can tolerate the hardened configuration or have the energy to configure it back to a usable typical browser config
@Szescstopni @mawhrin LibreWolf is pretty good