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It’s a shame that in my case trying to use Dillo here (HN) keeps returning 429, something that doesn’t happen with "full‑size" browsers (JS?).
I use dillo a lot, congratulations!

With these age verification laws and depending upon what Firefox does, dillo could very well be the go-to browser on Linux and BSD. If these laws hit us and Firefox adds logic to verify one's age, I will be 100% dillo.

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Unfortunately even Google started requiring JS, which was a huge attack against small browsers and the open web.
It is a feature. If website does not work in basic HTML, it is probably just a waste of time.
Am I the only one who has to giggle when reading that name?

I know people have somewhat related thoughts about the image editor called GIMP.

i totally misread the title of this post. What is wrong with me?
dilloc began before the 3.3.0 release, in some previous git commits and it was amazing.

It's pretty easy to write a redirect menu item calling a script similar to a plumber/xdg-open replacing the JS url's with non JS ones, a la Libredirect under Firefox/Chromium.

Is there a current and pre-compiled Windows port for Dillo somewhere?
i already mentioned it in other Dillo-related posts, but i can not repeat enough: Dillo was the browser enabled me to view the web at all on my first old 486 PC, packed in Damn Small Linux.
Sad dillo is c++, I would have compiled it with a small and alternative plain and simple C compiler like cproc/qbe or tinycc.

That said, there is a signal about coding AI able to do a really good job at assisting to port c++ to plain and simple C en masse.

I did attempt this with whatever was state of the art (SOTA) about 6 months ago for my own C++ and was disappointed. It's just not there yet.
A huge thank-you to the dev(s)! I love retro projects like this. I use Dillo daily, although it is for internal use. One thing I use it for is to view gemini protocol sites. The plug-in architecture means that you can render any protocol; gopher and gemini amongst others.

It's so lightweight!