Transparency efforts behind the Helium Browser
twapi
28 points
17 comments
July 09, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (5 comments)
mrbluecoat
> cause havoc, and put people first An odd pairing
pogue
How are they going to be adding uBlock Origin to Chromium going forward if manifest v2 gets completely deprecated/removed entirely?
willtemperley
In the same sense that a blockchain can be forked by using software that only accepts certain types of block, is it possible to fork the WWW in a similar manner? e.g. with changes that neuter the ad-mongers. For example coming up with a way to get rid of these god awful cookies. Maybe ad-monger sites could be allowed in the same way an insecure connection is allowed behind a series of warnings?
feverzsj
They messed up basic color scheme, making it almost unusable. [0]: https://github.com/imputnet/helium/issues/1532 [1]: https://github.com/imputnet/helium/issues/1850
NetOpWibby
I just set Helium as my default browser yesterday after dual-wielding it with Arc. Never thought I'd move on from Arc but here we are.