Comment on Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome
allalae@orcas.enjoying.yachts 1 year agoUsing 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.
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.
Unfortunately for Android, Chromium based browsers are, at the moment, significantly more secure than Firefox based ones.
Sadly it is still a problem. Fortunately there are some pretty good mobile browsers like Cromite available!
RIP Bromite
Mulch is pretty solid as well.
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)
Satelllliiiiiiiteeee@kbin.social 1 year ago
The WebKit engine Safari uses is still open-source, Gnome Web and Konqueror use it. It definitely has a small non-apple userbase but it's an option