In Silicon Valley, a pattern emerged. Corporations discovered that open source could double as public relations. They released code, declared transparency, and watched the world celebrate. Behind that applause, the same networks kept humming, feeding data to the same servers. The crowd saw freedom. The code quietly reported home.

Amid that cycle, a small project appeared that refused to join the show. The browser is called Helium. It comes from the same Chromium base that powers Chrome, Edge, and Opera, yet it stands apart from them in purpose. The browser operates with a single principle: privacy without performance theater.