• lolcatnip@reddthat.com
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    1 year ago

    This is a fucking childish take. If you don’t like what Google is doing with Chromium that’s one thing, but acting as if the code itself is evil is just straight-up magical thinking.

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      1 year ago

      The thing is, Google has so much influence on chromium that even if you don’t use Chrome, using chromium based browsers means you still help google maintain its monopoly on web. Only real alternatives are Firefox, Librewolf etc.

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      1 year ago

      Chromium is controlled by Google.

      Browsers down steam on Chromium will either pull from chromium or fork from it.

      They hold >75% of global browser market share.

      They make a change, like enforcing Web Environment Integrity API, you either comply or your competing chromium browser will.

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        1 year ago

        @Spudwart @lolcatnip, wrong, Chromium is FOSS and every browsercompany is free to gutt it out and modify it to their like, it’s not more controlled by Google than Gecko with several Google devs working in Mozilla on Firefox.
        The Problem is Google itself with it’s imperialistic behavior in internet, not which browser you use. This is precisely why he invented this WEI crap, because previous attempts to control it through Browser engine APIs didn’t work.

      • R0cket_M00se@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        So will Firefox, you think they’re not making ad revenue and operating in a capitalist system to do so?

        Firefox ain’t fucking Tron, it doesn’t fight for the users.