"Curse googles sudden but constant betrayal!"

Basically adware.

It's NOT the engineers. It's the executives and corporate management that decides that. The engineers just get paid to implement it.

Yes because that's beneficial to society and definitely not solely for the purpose of making the company and their executives richer.

I think the key is not Firefox but Apple. If Apple does not join the DRM web future, Google cannot force it.

It's almost like Google wants me to trade my android phone in on an iphone.

Imagine if ads had remained a single static banner at the top/bottom of the page and was hosted by the site itself. Maybe there wouldn't be an arms race to infiltrate every aspect of our digital lives.

Welp, there we go.

I'm working on the contrary, some sort of gemini web plus with modules, to keep the engine as small as possible to make porting/reinventions easier. The engine only provides basics like displaying text. Modules provide functionality like 'video player', gallery', 'search bar with filters', 'login', keeping webshops, company pages, etc. in mind. There's no JS or CSS, the styling is entirely in the hand of the browser/user (including dark mode, mobile view), the servers push only content. Likewise, active logins and payments will be handled by the browser, not the webpage. Though it will not be compatible with HTTPS/the current web. The protocol and the browser will be licensed open source.

I'm still planning, it's not even in the prototype phase yet. Should i push this further? If so, how would i get financial support? opentech.fund, ngi.edu, nlnet?