Dillo
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Dillo is a multi-platform graphical web browser, known for its speed and small footprint, that is developed with a focus on personal security and privacy.
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- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
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- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Oracle Solaris
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AI Slopfree Software Catalog
A more optimistic homage to the slopware catalog https://alternativeto.net/lists/44427/slopware/, this list is designed to showcase projects, both FOSS and proprietary, which reject contributions from Generative AI LLM slop machines. The most pessimistic thing about this list is how short it is and how so many commonly used software solutions and websites are not included.
I have to give it up to the following sites for providing references:
https://codeberg.org/brib/slopfree-software-index
https://github.com/melissawm/open-source-ai-contribution-policies
There are a lot more projects on this list which I didn't include because they aren't on AlternativeTo (yet). I'll be adding more entries to this site (and removing those who fold to the AI overlords) on a regular basis. I'm including references, which are all first-hand declarations from the development teams for each entry to ensure items aren't included based on hearsay or conjecture.
Updated 10-2-2026
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Despite appearances, Dillo is actively maintained. It may not compete with big browsers or work on every site, but it serves a purpose and is ideal for people with slower Internet connections.
Neither Chromium nor Mozilla based
That’s right, but I think a browser does not necessarily have to be based on it (to be a good one). Anyway, Dillo is completely outdated, no question.
Dillo is still maintained and targets populations with slow internet connections.
I used to use Dillo way back in the day, and it was great for low-end-hardware even then. It's good to know someone's picked it up again. I'm going to have to check it out again and see how it manages the current state of the web (at least the static parts of it).
It does not nearly display current HTML web sites correctly, but in the old days it was a good browser for low-source computers. Under Debian (and Ubuntu etc., I presume) it is still installable via terminal command (sudo apt install dillo).
Two years since the project started up again, and a full Debian release later, Trixie still has the old, pre-hiatus version in apt.
At least Fedora, Arch and Alpine have updated their repos with the newer releases.
It appears to be abandoned or discontinued; there hasn't been a commit to the mercurial repository since 2018. It's UI was charmingly out of date, wasn't HTML5 compatible, and didn't support JavaScript (which is kind of a plus), but it was pretty great for what it was.