this post was submitted on 28 Aug 2024
882 points (97.2% liked)

memes

10391 readers
1867 users here now

Community rules

1. Be civilNo trolling, bigotry or other insulting / annoying behaviour

2. No politicsThis is non-politics community. For political memes please go to [email protected]

3. No recent repostsCheck for reposts when posting a meme, you can only repost after 1 month

4. No botsNo bots without the express approval of the mods or the admins

5. No Spam/AdsNo advertisements or spam. This is an instance rule and the only way to live.

Sister communities

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (18 children)

What's preventing me, a private user, from just creating my own web browser? it's a program like any other that just needs to be able to access each websites' server and display its files right? You can't tell me that nobody else has ever wanted to make their own alternative, so why do we never hear about them?

[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

Because they're giant applications that do a lot under the hood that you don't see. Of course you can write your own, we did that during my degree but it was extremely basic.

load more comments (17 replies)