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Look, Another AI Browser

(manuelmoreale.com)
220 points v3am | 1 comments | 22 Oct 25 17:15 UTC | HN request time: 0.319s | source
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bengoodger ◴[22 Oct 25 18:10 UTC] No.45672970[source]▶
Genuinely curious - what do people want to see from a new/different rendering engine?

The web is crazy complex these days because it is an entire app platform.

The incentive for anyone building a browser is to use the platform that gives you the best web compat especially at the outset when you don’t have enough users of your app to be able to make big changes to the platform. Even Chrome didn’t start from scratch - it used WebKit!

The Chromium community has built an excellent open platform that everyone can use. We are fortunate to be able to use it.

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1. glenstein ◴[22 Oct 25 18:20 UTC] No.45673111[source]▶
I think the concerns are not about feature requests but about leveraging embrace-extend-extinguish dynamics to push the web as a whole closer to being locked into dependence on Google as a platform. There are mountains of articles on the topic, ranging from ad blockers to privacy to DRM. But the critiques are old news to anyone who's been following the topic for a while.