I'm very happy that projects like this exist, and hope that they succeed in their mission.
With the current state of the web, filled with mostly spam content designed to generate ad revenue and to exploit the user, accessed from mainstream browsers produced by large corporations that are increasingly trying to do the same thing, web users are being squeezed from all sides. Using the web today is a hostile experience, and the only safe haven from all this nonsense is using community-supported alternative browsers, that are really stripped down versions of mainstream ones, and relying heavily on ad, cookie, JavaScript and other blockers, which may stop working at any point. This is a difficult task only tech savvy users can realistically do, while most other users have no choice.
A new, independent, browser alone will not solve this, but it's certainly a step in the right direction.
> Using the web today is a hostile experience, and the only safe haven from all this nonsense is using community-supported alternative browsers, that are really stripped down versions of mainstream ones, and relying heavily on ad, cookie, JavaScript and other blockers, which may stop working at any point.
I think the actual root of the problem is that the people and organizations developing and running the sites do want to force the ads, analytics and other things upon you and you as a user basically have to hack around that. If the users actually took a stance with something a bit like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_LibreJS then the sad reality would be that you just couldn't use most sites altogether.
I found NoScript to be a good alternative. It disables JS by default but then you can reenable per page but also per domain. You only enable just what you need for the page to work and sometimes only temporarily.
I still need to enable things here and there but it's a fairly easy straightforward process.
Couple this with uBlock and firefox Container (where I am logged to google only for gmail in a specific container) and the web is pleasant again
uBlock Origin already supports Javascript blocking (both globally and per domain) if you enable advanced mode. Redundant extensions are just extra attack surface.
With the current state of the web, filled with mostly spam content designed to generate ad revenue and to exploit the user, accessed from mainstream browsers produced by large corporations that are increasingly trying to do the same thing, web users are being squeezed from all sides. Using the web today is a hostile experience, and the only safe haven from all this nonsense is using community-supported alternative browsers, that are really stripped down versions of mainstream ones, and relying heavily on ad, cookie, JavaScript and other blockers, which may stop working at any point. This is a difficult task only tech savvy users can realistically do, while most other users have no choice.
A new, independent, browser alone will not solve this, but it's certainly a step in the right direction.