Truly independent web browser

maybe I'm not seeing where the smoking gun is, here. I see a guy saying something akin to "can we not do this here in the github please"

and then I see a bunch of people blowing up and yelling about "dehumanization" over it.

...why is this such a huge deal exactly?

Can you provide some context?

This Mastodon post discusses it and has links to the PRs: https://ruby.social/@denis/112718132053579597

This one for SerenityOS shows Kling's response to a very minor and neutral change.

Maybe I’m dumb, but I completely do not understand what the dev did to upset people.

I read the thread and I’m confused about it.

Chill. Read the cited sources. It's someone asking the community to not use the github forum for discussing the completely irrelevant topic. It's not a fucking open forum it's for developers to use as a resource. I don't care if the person was giving out a $1,000,000 to anyone that commented, find an appropriate place to post your comments. I saw nothing against the topic itself but a bunch of angry responses. I mean if you read and are like na fuck that dude than 100% that's your take but that's the thing, its YOUR take. I hate seeing people so quick to draw the fuck this or fuck that card from absolutely zero rhetoric than what an anonymous internet comment said.

As someone who speaks a language with gendered pronouns but no neutral option, this is very awkward to deal with.

Well on the contrary you should understand it more. A gendered pronoun carries an idea of gender, and having a genderless pronoun frees the sentence of this gender assumption. Nothing very hard to understand.

Refusing the change is pushing a political agenda too. But I guess it helps seeing which agenda you prefer ;)

Kling is the one "making drama"

Cancel culture, this far-right myth that fascists love so much. You forgot to continue and talk about freedom of speech and how you are a centrist.

Removed

And it's my view that we are free to dunk on people with bad views.

Did the OP say they couldn't have different views? You must have replied to the wrong comment.

people can have different views. you might not like them but it’s their views, not yours

Yes, they can. And I can also view their views with disdain... or even horror and choose not to support their efforts, whatever they may be.

What you are really saying here is that you to some degree don't disagree with Kling and so it's this particular view you find acceptable to let pass. If it were something like "people should be fine eating small children" you might react differently.

To be fair, it is quite possible to fingerprint you pretty well without any JS at all, both inside and outside of html/css.

And disabling javascript is certainly something that not many people do, so already that makes you stand out even more.

Lol, but also JS being volatile in the current browser makes it easier to fingerprint.

Btw, how much of HTML features do they support yet? I found nothing googling.

Because, it's not that you support HTML 4 or 5 but how much of it. I think QtWebkit is still ahead of Blink and Gecko there, but less performant.

My point exactly. It isn't ready and OP gave no context for why this relates to privacy. Better suited for the open source community on Lemmy.

*sets reminder now

That doesn't make it private. Privacy on the modern web requires anti-fingerprinting, otherwise any website with tracking scripts can easily start creating a shadow profile for you.

Edit:
What I mean is it isn't a browser anyone who cares about their privacy should use (yet or every depending on development). Not close to ready yet. OP didnt put any context either for why they posted it.