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So.. no new browsers should ever be created? Or only created by people with enough money to get CloudFlare onboard from the start? Nothing new will ever become major if they're denied access to half the web.


You can create a new browser, there are plenty of modern new browsers that aren't considered major and work just fine because they run on top of recent releases of chromium.

There are actually hundreds of smaller chromium forks that add small features, such as built-in adblock and have no issues with neither Cloudflare nor other captchas.


I think it's pretty clear this is about browser engines. If your view holds then Servo (currently #3 story in front page) will never make it.




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