Chrome isn’t necessarily the default. Samsung Browser is a thing
Pantherina@feddit.de 2 months ago
Could someone add an image of this setup screen?
I dont get why Apple would actively advertise other browsers.
Android is completely open and people still use Chrrome
brlemworld@lemmy.world 2 months ago
ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Samsung browser is just chrome in a jacket.
The biggest threat to an free and open internet is chrome. Chromium the base of chrome is open source and used by many other browsers as the engine (and most of the features). Everything else is clothing. Chrome, edge, brave, Vivaldi etc are all chrome in a mask.
Since chromium is developed and controlled by Google they have defacto control over how these browsers work, operate and display web content. This gives Google massive leverage in control how the web and it’s standards develop.
There is only two other web browser. Firefox and safari. These are the only other operations cable of building and maintaing a modern web browser currently. Chrome took apples safari open source core WebKit to build chrome. They then forked it. Because Google chrome is so powerful, apple will need to follow to keep inline with Google. Google also pays them billions every year. Likewise Firefox is funded by Google through default search.
Google is trying to control the web. Use Firefox.
Pantherina@feddit.de 2 months ago
Lol right, people use whatever they get fed. I cant believe how people use phones as products, what came with it MUST be perfect
ricdeh@lemmy.world 2 months ago
At least for Android, you can pick your default browser from a selection in the installation when you first setup your phone. So no, Chrome is not necessarily the default on Android.
Pantherina@feddit.de 2 months ago
What? I never saw such a selection on setup, and I set up some Nokia Android, LineageOS, GrapheneOS and Google Pixel OS
RunawayFixer@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s a recent eu (or eea) thing: www.android.com/choicescreen/dma/
LemmyRefugee@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I can’t add it as I already used it. There was a list of browsers and Safari was the last one.
Pantherina@feddit.de 2 months ago
Crazy, this is crazy. And extremely good!
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The list is randomised. Sometimes Safari is first, last, middle.
SRo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
That’s wrong, android actually advertises to switch the standard browser and search engine. But tbh only recently.
Pantherina@feddit.de 2 months ago
Maybe on setup but not on factory reset it seems.
I have ever only gotten factory reset phones… and one that was in arab but I could find the settings by comparing menus to grapheneos, pixel os is luckily close to AOSP
SRo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Nope, I got it just as an update on one phone; no resetting or fresh setup necessary.
Sl00k@programming.dev 2 months ago
From the Brave PR account:
Image
Also I believe it was legally required by the EU. List is randomized.
Pantherina@feddit.de 2 months ago
Fucking onion browser??? Damn