Comment on Quick post about AI-free FireFox Based Browsers (Keep your Adds and avoid the Bloat)
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoThere are some good iOS browsers, they’re just out of the way.
At the moment, I use Orion (from Kagi) and Narrow32. Quiche Browser is good, DuckDuckGo is fine.
4am@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
At the moment, iOS doesn’t not allow any other browser engines. Every browser on iOS is just reskinned Safari.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That’s kind of a blessing in disguise; otherwise basically all web traffic would be Chrome.
Apparenty this is softening some: techspot.com/…/108965-japan-gives-apple-december-…
And Safari is quite performant on iOS.
Honestly, I know it sounds crazy, but I wouldn’t mind if that continues, just so there’s some chunk of traffic that isn’t Chrome and that web development doesn’t turn into a complete monoculture.
pirateKaiser@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
That traffic only skews the graph like a false positive. While WebKit itself is oss, apple’s tendency to just separate itself from the rest of the world makes it largely irrelevant. There are very few alternative browsers based on webkit for other platforms and the expected benefit of developers having to cater to apple’s choices are thus negligible for the rest of us.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Still though. I don’t want to be on an internet where Chrome is basically the only develoment target, and for anything to work properly you have to be on Google’s browser. Safari forces at least some generalization.