If 100 people are using that browser, how will they know which one is me?
> How browsers render SVGs can be used for fingerprinting (even the underlying OS affects this, and I assume you'll want to see those)
Can you provide details on this? And how will they know which OS I'm using (through SVG rendering...)? The UserAgent definitely should not send the OS.
> combine with ISP from IP address
That's already provided whether I use Private mode or not, correct? I can always use a VPN.
No support for forms. The browser is meant for content consumption. Not for interaction/creation.
One could argue that any JS capabilities to do network requests (including dynamically rendering content) would be disallowed.
Yes, I know, this is going pre-Web 2.0.
Yes, of course, most current sites won't work in that model. But I'll also say: Most current content sites don't need these capabilities. They have them because they know the browser supports them.
Again - a fantasy. I know only a few people will use it. I know that won't be enough to change web behavior. It would be nice, though, if sites carried a badge to indicate they conform to all of the above.
What you want exists, have at it
"Web applications use it for offline support, caching, session state, and other local storage needs"
This use case is completely orthogonal to what my browser is meant to do. My browser would not have a concept of local storage.
The premise of starting with a modern browser and stripping away features to get privacy is flawed - it's always vulnerable to these types of things. I'm going the opposite route: Only add features if they cannot be exploited for monitoring.
thankfully i think traditional web surfing is probably going to die out in the next 10 years, and progressively decline a lot much sooner than that as people start to interact with AI rather than browsers (or any software for that matter).
my feed of hackernews is going to be my AI agent giving it to me in plain text very soon, and soon after that i will probably never visit the internet again because it will be impossible to know what's real and fake
as a millennial it will be interesting to experience the full cycle of being born when nothing was online, to everything being online, to then again being entirely offline by the time i'm older
Wait for the advent of local agents running on local models (for privacy) followed by techniques to fingerprint agents, followed by techniques to infer query parameters based on agent behavior. I wish I was joking but it seems all too plausible.