2026-05-10 –, Grégr Stage
The browser was built as a universal interface but has become a powerful surveillance surface. Even with encryption, metadata leaks, fingerprinting, and centralized control points remain baked into the web stack. This panel explores the structural privacy limits of browser-based apps and asks what a post-browser, privacy-native internet could look like.
Modern browsers were designed for openness and interoperability, not adversarial environments. Today they sit at the center of identity, communication, and financial activity online, while leaking metadata, enabling fingerprinting, and concentrating control in a handful of engines and gatekeepers.
This panel examines the architectural privacy limits of browser-based applications. We will explore tracking surfaces, extension risks, protocol-level constraints, and the economic incentives shaping the web stack. Most importantly, we will discuss viable alternatives: local-first apps, peer-to-peer architectures, protocol-native interfaces, and browser-minimized or browser-free user experiences.
If privacy must be resilient, we may need to rethink the default gateway to the internet itself.
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Cryptography & Protocol Engineer at HOPR - mostly working on security and cryptographic protocols spanning from Ethereum to network packet processing.
Marina has spent over a decade in Web3, helping turn protocols into movements. She has worked with Dapper Labs, Flow Blockchain, Nym, and other pioneering teams shaping decentralized infrastructure. Today, she is Growth Lead at Logos.co and a privacy advocate building adoption for censorship-resistant, sovereignty-first technologies.
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