Comment on Google spent $26 billion to hide this phone setting from you
tabular@lemmy.world 11 months agoGiven the overly wide scope of web browsers it is impossible for a new competitor to create a new browser correctly or securly. The browser market has one path as far as I can see: Firefox dying and overlord Google being on top until we stop using “the web”.
I mean, you could just use Firefox or safari, or anything not chromium really. Yeah Moz will take money from search revenue, but they’ve proven over and over google doesn’t tell them what to do.
Heck, chrome exists because google tried to firce Moz to ship a shitty bookmarks implementation, and Mozilla said no years ago. It’s literally just an example of a “I’m going to take my ball and go home” tantrum.
I do use Firefox (Librewolf) but Moz are not in control of web “standards” that most websites will follow.
I believe web browsers ultimately should be abandoned and replaced by users with software dedicated to parts of browser functions (e.g. Gemini sites for plain text, video players for video).
raptir@lemdro.id 11 months ago
I hope not. Not only do I not want to see Google annihilate Firefox but I also don’t want to see the further “appification” of every website. It’s ridiculous that I need to install an app to pay for parking when I’m visiting a city and will only use the app once. It’s not even Bluetooth enabled so it’s not like it can be used offline if you don’t have a connection.
The fact that Firefox is open source gives me some hope that the community could take the reins and continue development if Mozilla did run into financial trouble.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 11 months ago
There’s already some forks of Firefox.
raptir@lemdro.id 11 months ago
Aren’t they realistically more “patches” than forks? They continue to track the Firefox codebase as it updates.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah you could be right, I’m not sure about the specifics, just that there’s other versions of it.
tabular@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That is horrible but it need not be. Parking paying apps could be federated: you pick the app you like and can pay anywhere*.
Personally I have never used a parking app because they are proprietary and thankfully I live in country where many still uses coins.