Dot Browser - A new gecko based browser that focuses on privacy and elegance

www.dothq.co Get the browser that fights for your privacy.

Dot Browser is a privacy-conscious web browser with smarts built-in for protection against trackers and advertisements online.

New gecko based browsers are rare nowadays but this one is especially unique to me because it is more than just "firefox with tweaks" like a lot of the ones I've come across. The UI is different, it's working on custom settings, a new more powerful sidebar, a new theming system, and potentially IPFS/Dat support further down the line. It's very early in development but it's still impressive as it is.

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Unfortunately the website doesn't even show the UI... for a browser that is focused on looks and privacy, that is a rookie mistake.

Can't even install it because the dot binary conflicts with a Gimp dependency :/

when i try to run it, it says that i need to install glibc but when i run sud0 apt install glibc it d0esnt find it. uwu
- I asked the devs and they said it might have something to do with them compiling on the latest ubuntu because then it can break on older ubuntu versions as well as some older distros in general. That's good to know.
- Install build-essentials and gcc
- What's with the 1337 language?
  
  keyboard broken
- Similar problem. I'm on Fedora, have my package manager's latest version of gcc, and it says version 'GLIBCXX_3.4.29' not found

I love Dot browser! They aren't releasing as often, but they usually release nightly builds every day. I'm guessing a big release is gonna be coming up soon?
- Yeah I think a major release is coming. I think they're working on making the browser more unique and polished before having an official release.

The project looks a bit death to, does anyone have any news?
- I followed the project on discord a while ago (yuck) and it seemed the creators had other things come up in their personal lives and the browser got put on the back burner. The zen browser seems to fill a similar firefox-based niche though.

It seems interesting, I am still looking for a second browser. So far I reject those with the Gecko engine, since they are all forks with Mozilla, whose respect for privacy is as nefarious as that of Google that finances them (see TOS and Mozilla's Privacy policy) I'm going to take a look at this one and put it on my list, but I'm still going to wait a bit until it comes out of alpha.
- Mozilla and google are nothing like each other. Stop spreading FUD.
  
  Error, no FUD, nothing more than entering in the Mozilla page, they give you an Alphabet Inc tracker, among others, if you do not block it. Mozilla has economic relationship with Google, as is easily verifiable.
- If you can't use Gecko because Mozilla is financed by Google, and also can't use Blink because it's developed by Google, with what browser engine does that leave you?
  Also aren't you the person who recommends Vivaldi a lot? Vivaldi is a Blink/Chromium, which is developed by Google. I'd rather use the engine Google has less control over
  
  Vivaldi is also proprietary. Seems hypocritical to not even consider Firefox because Mozilla while recommending closed source code.
  Like, I don't particularly like what Mozilla has been doing either, but to say it's as bad as Google is a massive exaggeration. Google once stole Americans' healthcare data and got off away scott free.
  
  It is not because of the forks, which surely have nothing to do with Google, but because of the synchronization problem, in the case of FF and forks, if they use Mozilla servers, that if it is related to Google. Vivaldi has its own servers for synchronization, end2end encryption and, although it carries Google APIs by default, it allows the user to deactivate them in the configuration, if they do not need/want them. This is what is not possible in Mozilla, which is financed with Google APIs, which in Vivaldi is not the case. Like Mozilla, it has income from sponsors, whose links and search engines are present in the default browser (none of them from Google), but it allows the user to remove them if they do not use them. This is the difference. It does not have to do if it is Blink, Gecko or even WebKit, there is no more to choose from, since no one has developed a new engine in 20 years, because it is the most complex part of a browser and of those there is, Blink works best with new web formats, because of this is the most used, include MS now use Blink. Dot Browser can be a good alternative, but only if it use own servers for Sync.

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