Stealth – Secure, Peer-to-Peer, Private and Automateable Web Browser
Author of the project here. I didn't expect this to be posted on HN because the project is kind of still in its infancy.<p>The motivation behind the Browser was that I usually "use the Web" as a knowledge resource and am reading articles online, on blogs, on news websites, on social media and so on. But there are a couple of problems when seeing "what a Browser is" currently. A Browser currently is made for manual human interaction, and not for self-automation of repetitive tasks. These are currently only available at the mercy of programming or extensions, which I do not think is the reasonable way to go.<p>Why block everything except 2 things on a website when you could just grab the information you expect a website to contain?<p>I'm calling it a Semantic Web Browser because I want to build a p2p network that understands the knowledge the websites contain with its site adapters (beacons) and workflows (echoes), whereas the underlying concept tries to decentralize as much automation aspects as possible.<p>In the past a lot of websites were taken down (some for BS reasons, some not), but what's more important to me is the knowledge that is lost forever. Even if the knowledge is web-archived, the discovery (and sharing) aspects are gone, too.<p>My goal with the project is to be a network that tries to find truth and knowledge in the semantic content of the web, whereas I'm trying to build something that understands bias in articles, the authors of said articles, and history of articles that were (re-)posted on social media with biased perspectives.<p>I know that NLP currently isn't that far, but I think with swarm intelligence ideas (taken from Honeybee Democracy and similar research on bees) and the compositional game theory, it might be possible to have a self-defending system against financial actors.<p>Currently the Browser doesn't have a fully functioning UI/UX yet, and the parsers are being refactored. So it's still a prototype.<p>It is a decentralized Browser in the sense that if you've trusted peers in your local (or global) network, you can reuse their caches and share automation aspects with them (your friend's or your family's browser(s)), which allows fully decentralized (static) ways to archive websites and their links to other websites.<p>I'm not sure where the journey is heading to be honest, but I think the Tholian race and the naming makes it clear: "Be correct; we do not tolerate deceit." pretty much sums up why I built this thing.<p>Currently I don't have funding, and I'm trying to build up a startup around the idea of this "Web Intelligence Network" whereas I see a potential business model for large scale actors that want to do web scraping and/or gathering via the "extraction adapters" of websites that are maintained by the network.<p>I think this project turned out to be very important to me, especially when taking a glimpse at the post-COVID social media that contains so much bullshit that you could easily lose hope for humanity.