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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mind@lemmy.world 1 year ago[deleted]
allalae@orcas.enjoying.yachts 1 year ago
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?
DrDeadCrash@programming.dev 1 year ago
Google pays to be the default search in Firefox, it was Bing for a while.
nintendoit@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Also it pays to keep mozilla alive.It helps in defending anti-competitive lawsuits.
Sad to say there are only two engines available for the open web.(Not considering Safari as that is only available on apple)
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.
circuscritic@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Unfortunately for Android, Chromium based browsers are, at the moment, significantly more secure than Firefox based ones.
bug@lemmy.one 1 year ago
Sadly it is still a problem. Fortunately there are some pretty good mobile browsers like Cromite available!
circuscritic@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
RIP Bromite
Mulch is pretty solid as well.
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.
account_93@lemm.ee 1 year ago
They’re based on Chromium, Not Google’s altered version of it.
csolisr@communities.azkware.net 1 year ago
mind@lemmy.world 1 year ago
[deleted]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:
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.
DrDeadCrash@programming.dev 1 year ago
Exactly, we’ve seen this previously with Internet explorer.
warmaster@lemmy.world 1 year ago
And Netscape before that, it had reached 90% market share.
DrDeadCrash@programming.dev 1 year ago
You’re missing the point. Netscape implemented the html standard, they didn’t introduce new, proprietary “features” to gain that market share.
mind@lemmy.world 1 year ago
DrDeadCrash@programming.dev 1 year ago
There are two things to consider here:
Chrome offers adherence to standards as one of their features. But it also introduces new features that look like standards, meant to increase profits for the parent company.