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Google Search is an illegal monopoly — what happens now?
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If Mozilla needs Google to survive, they can go down with the ship for all I care. Mozilla are bad actors anyways.
If not Mozilla or Google, what will you use for a browser?
There's a decent selection at the moment:
If you need javascript+css: qtwebkit, gtkwebkit, qtwebengine ( blink based :( ), Ladybird (I really don't care if the dev sucks; goolag/mozilla's browser monopoly is too important for me to care about some stupid idpol takes)
If you don't need javascript but want css: netsurf (there is technically javascript support, but it's worked absolutely nowhere in my experience)
If you're an epic hackor that doesn't need either: w3m, links2, links, lynx
I mostly use w3m, but I use qutebrowser (qtwebkit and qtwebengine) when I need js. I'll probably replace qutebrowser with Ladybird once there's a port for OpenBSD (trying to write my own at the moment).
If you just want to abandon www all together, check out gemini and gopher clients.
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Thank you for teaching me a new word. I would hardly call using webkit instead of gecko idealistic, but normies gonna normie, I guess.
If you don't know how to differentiate between a dev having stupid idpol takes and an ad-company feigning to be a privacy organization mass-distributing spyware and adware inside privacy conscious communities then I can't help you.
These are not alternatives to modern browsers.
I'm going to conclude you're lying and haven't actually used a webkit browser, because in terms of feature parity with blink and gecko, webkit is pretty good. Maybe some stuff breaks with RTC WASM and other questionable browser capabilities, but for 99% of the web they're fine. All of the browsers I've recommended are regularly updated (except links, superceded by links2), all of them are "modern". If I wanted to recommend old dead browsers, I would recommend retawq, dillo, elinks or xombrero. Even textmode only browsers are very usable for documentation and reading news and blogs.
For what I want to do on the Internet, Lynx works just fine. If I need something fancy I'll just us Safari on my phone.