Comment on Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome

mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• mind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    There is an issue with monoculture of rendering engines. Developers assume every browser have the same things implemented and start to build around this assumption. Also Google can dictate how the web looks like.

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    • DrDeadCrash@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Exactly, we’ve seen this previously with Internet explorer.

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      • warmaster@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        And Netscape before that, it had reached 90% market share.

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      • mind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • allalae@orcas.enjoying.yachts ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Using chromium based browsers keeps power over web standards and such in google’s hands, i.e enforces their ever growing monopoly. So if you want a competitive/fair environment on the web, it’s best to avoid them altogether and stick to firefox or safari.

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    • bernieecclestoned@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Aren’t Firefox funded by Google in order to present a false sense of competition in the browser market?

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      • DrDeadCrash@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Google pays to be the default search in Firefox, it was Bing for a while.

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    • gornius@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Funny you mention Safari, because you know, Safari is the only browser allowed on iOS. Every other browser has to use Safari to render web pages if they want to be in App Store - once again the only allowed source of packages.

      Safari on iOS is literally worse than IE and Chrome combined.

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    • circuscritic@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Unfortunately for Android, Chromium based browsers are, at the moment, significantly more secure than Firefox based ones.

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      • bug@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        On Android, Firefox is still less secure than Chromium-based alternatives: Mozilla’s engine, GeckoView, has yet to support site isolation or enable isolatedProcess.

        Sadly it is still a problem. Fortunately there are some pretty good mobile browsers like Cromite available!

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  • csolisr@communities.azkware.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Unless the developers of other browsers take specific steps, the ad engine will get pulled on the next update of their Chromium engine, that’s the problem.

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    • account_93@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They’re based on Chromium, Not Google’s altered version of it.

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      • csolisr@communities.azkware.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yeah, about that…

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    • mind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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      • Spotlight7573@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It’s in Chromium, the other browsers have just disabled/patched it out: …googlesource.com/…/privacy_sandbox_prefs.h

        // Un-synced boolean pref indicating if Topics API is enabled.

        inline constexpr char kPrivacySandboxM1TopicsEnabled[] = “privacy_sandbox.m1.topics_enabled”;`

        e.g. Vivaldi:

        vivaldi.com/…/heads-up-googles-going-off-topics-a…

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• Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Safari isn’t Chromium based! But I’m not a fan of it on Desktop, just iOS.

  Firefox for all my other devices.

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• IHaveTwoCows@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • gentooer@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Been using it exclusively for a few years now, I’m pretty happy with it

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  • mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s the only search engine i use.

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