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Uplink@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

How is this going to end?

Google blocks access to it’s services for Firefox altogether? Maybe even ban it from the Play Store? That would finally give me a real incentive to install some CFW.

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lipilee@feddit.nl ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
No, they will simply stop funding mozilla.

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helmet91@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I know this isn’t a popular view, but as for me, if Google makes the user experience worse (or blocks services entirely) for Firefox, I’ll just stop using those services. I’ll find alternatives for the essentials, and those that aren’t essential… well, hello, extra free time.

It was a thing of the past, when different browsers rendered websites differently, thus some services didn’t work in certain browsers.

Nowadays all browsers are pretty advanced, they render websites more or less precisely according to standards, so it’s really not hard to make a website work in all major browsers. So if a service doesn’t work in the browser of my choice (whether it’s intentional or not), then that service sucks and isn’t worth my time messing with it.

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M0oP0o@mander.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Well yes but then it would be really really hard to not have an antitrust charge bought (we know that various governments have been trying to not pursue any antitrust so far)

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sammeeeeeee@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I would say that’s most likely ileagal

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- Dublin112@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  In the US, without net neutrality I believe it’s completely legal. I remember seeing a report on The Steven Colbert show about a year or so after we lost net neutrality about how Comcast deemed Netflix wasn’t paying them enough money so they throttled Netflix into the ground. This gave the appearance that Netflix services were crap in comparison to their own services like Hulu. About a month later they came to an agreement and Netflix paid up then magically speeds were restored to about the same as Hulu services.
  
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Patch@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I can practically hear the EU Commission stoking the furnace as we speak…

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vimdiesel@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
that’s fine, we’ll find a way. I mean they could start some kind of clumsy certification thing, but I’ll just move on and open up brave when I absolutely have to, otherwise they get no attention from me. I bet ublock traffic is less than a half a percent of their traffic.

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