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pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 11 months agoIt didn’t start that way, it wasn’t until they had dominance in multiple areas that they started fucking their customers, but the difference here is that it’s stupid easy to change to Firefox, Safari, or gasp Edge.
tsonfeir@lemm.ee 11 months ago
wazzupdog@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Edge is chromium. And safari is still apple only. So you’re last sentence is wrong, but it is indeed super easy to switch to Firefox, or another non-chromium based browser.
lemann@lemmy.one 11 months ago
Gnome Web (Epiphany Browser)
wazzupdog@lemmy.world 11 months ago
If you are into WebKit (is a port, I’m aware), that browser looks worth giving a shot, what features do you like about it?
lemann@lemmy.one 11 months ago
I’ve only really used it to check how my portfolio site would render on a non-Chromium and non-Gecko browser, and actually found a few issues with the site that needed fixing. Would have used Safari if I had it, but the only apple device in my household runs Linux 🤫.
Aside from that, it’s a very lightweight browser and fits in well with the Gnome DE design style. Personally I wouldn’t use it as a primary browser since I’ve got all my extensions, bookmarks and container tabs all set up in Firefox, however the simplicity and clean design of Epiphany is quite appealing imo. The last time I tried it there was an option in the browser settings to block ads, pretty nice to have that OOTB
pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Chromium isn’t as bad as Chrome, Google actively tries to get you to use Chrome by blocking some features in Chromium (like account syncing).
wazzupdog@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That’s like equating evil and evil, both are still Google, both are gonna have mv2 removed (eventually) making web filtering a nightmare. I have an kinds of add-ons that prohibit any scripts from running on a website without my explicit authorization. Mv3 will break that level of security. Chromium=chrome both owned and maintained by Google.
pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You are aware that Chromium is an open source project and isn’t owned by anyone, right? Google created the engine/framework and are the biggest contributors to it, but that’s akin to saying “Red Hat (or Linus himself) owns Linux”.
Google has full control over Chrome which is closed source and has their specific tweaks, they don’t have full control over Chromium. I could fork the Chromium repo and there is nothing that Google can do to add in any of their tracking because I have a full copy of the source code and can modify it as I see fit.
Chromium is not Chrome. Just like Edge isn’t Chrome.