Well, again, a shitty thing that they have waited so long to make it public, it looks kind of fishy but maybe Alex was busy or something, I don’t know.
Although I couldn’t dislike more the idea of a company owning a product, instead of an organization, I have to understand the way the world works specially for web browsers. You need A LOT of money to make them secure, fast and modern, and this can’t be achieved by donations unfortunately. The case of Mozilla is a big exception, since they were working for a company who end up releasing the code and they were very, very, very lucky since it was the most used WB back in the day and achieved fame and attract deals to make a profit.
In this case, even more than in comparison with Startpage, I have to put a little bit of trust and hope with them, they are a FLOSS product and the code can be audited, I find it really hard to believe that something suspicious could be done with their users not knowing it. I just hope that with the acquisition they can become more reliable so they can compete with the big ones, at least in small numbers, I would really love to see a bit more of Firefox-like browsers instead of so Chromium like shit, they are terrible. And with the works of development, I would love to see more customization and therefore being able to disable any kind of telemetry they could have.
I guess we’re seeing our first web browser with Startpage as their default search engine?
