Axeptio Supports Ladybird to Advance a Standards-Driven, Independent Open Web
by on 28th Oct 2025 in News
The web is our shared infrastructure for information, connection, and interaction. It is dynamic, generative, and yet fragile. Today, (28th October, 2025) Axeptio announces its sponsorship of the Ladybird Browser Initiative, in support of a simple idea: the open web can only stay open if there are independent ways to access it.
Over the years, the web has endured constant tension between platform control and the collective openness it was built upon. Each time unilateral decisions reshape browsers, privacy frameworks, or operating systems, the entire ecosystem feels the shockwaves, undermining the very independence the open web was meant to guarantee. These breaking changes do not just affect developers, they affect how people experience, trust and make decisions online.
In that sense, it is important for us to support Ladybird, an independent browser project with a new engine built from scratch, developed transparently and driven by a web-standards-first approach.
Browsers write the open web’s DNA, and that affects all of us
Browsers and their engines are not neutral tools: they shape which features arrive first, how standards are interpreted, and what behaviours become the norm. Over recent years the web industry has been caught in a constant back-and-forth between platform moves and regulatory responses. Major, unilateral shifts at the browser or OS level (e.g. ATT, Privacy Sandbox, etc.) make it harder for publishers, developers, and privacy practitioners to deliver stable and satisfying user experiences.
At the same time, many hoped that neutral, standards-oriented actors would continue to serve as technical guardians for the open web. For years, projects like Mozilla embodied that ambition. But as priorities evolved and focus broadened beyond browser engineering, they lost sight of this initial objective.
The Ladybird Browser Initiative takes a different path. By building a browser and web engine entirely from scratch, and by committing to a web-standards-first approach, Ladybird adds much-needed plurality to the ecosystem. Its public codebase and active dialogue with the standards community make it a living test case for open implementation, a reminder that independent engineering is essential to keeping the web healthy.
Designing for an open web built on trust
In this context, independent projects matter more than ever. They remind us that the health of the open web depends on the existence of alternatives. A new rendering engine, developed transparently and committed to web standards, keeps the very fabric of the web accountable to its users rather than to any single commercial logic.
That’s what Ladybird represents: a transparent effort to rebuild how the web is rendered, with performance, stability, and security as guiding principles. And that’s why Axeptio chooses to contribute. Our mission has always been to help people make informed choices online, but true empowerment starts upstream, with the freedom to choose how we access the web in the first place.
Supporting Ladybird, for Axeptio, is therefore a statement of alignment with the open web: a web that remains independent, standard-driven, and worthy of trust.
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