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Announcing the Ladybird Browser Initiative
(ladybird.org)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
My best guess would be that Shopify either care about the open Web or had some disagreements with Google.
I can't find anything shady on them, but maybe I'm looking the wrong places.
My guess is they just want a high value backlink for their SEO performance ๐
They fired a lot of people and replaced them with AI: https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/04/how-shopify-bungled-its-latest-layoffs-and-made-employees-feel-like-npcs/
found this
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/shopify-faces-increased-pressure-over-refusal-to-drop-breitbart-webstore/article33973253/
While controversial, I think it's more a product of how insane US "politics" are.
They could be good guys even so.