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Ladybird Browser Gains Cloudflare Support to Challenge the Status Quo (linuxiac.com)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
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[–] 6 points 11 months ago (1 child)

i give them the benefit of the doubt, as stated on their website:

All sponsorships are in the form of unrestricted donations. Board seats and other forms of influence are not for sale.

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  • [–] -1 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    AIPAC doesnt partner up with politicians. They just give them. "uNrEsTrIcTeD dOnAtIoNs".

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

    Is there evidence or something to support your assertion that Cloudflare = NSA?

    Even if Cloudflare = NSA, there no evidence to support your parallel. If the Ladybird team does something suspicious or hostile to the interests of its users - please let us know.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

    Edward fucking Snowden and the Patriot Act.

    Cloudflare is not authorized to disclose that they are.

    They decrypt all traffic going through them for deep packet analysis. It would be dumb of the US not to make use of that. Look at Palantir. Or the recent Azure fiasco with the Unit 8200.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

    It is naive to trust any US-based service. The devil's advocate in me just wanted to hear why you believe what you do, so thanks for that.

    My angle was mostly to point out that Ladybird hasn't done anything obviously morally bankrupt like the politicians you pointed out - the only detracting factors to me about the project are 1) that the nonprofit is based in the US 2) that it's not written in Rust.

    Of course, it's worth being suspicious of a web browser of all things. I just see Cloudflare's contribution in a neutral light given Cloudflare's general strategy towards PR and the fact that the Ladybird browser is likely going to be a very niche product - and they aren't even focusing on Windows support for the foreseeable future.

    Do I trust Ladybird more than Mozilla? Only very slightly, but the bar is pretty low - and it's not blind trust.

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