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No Adblock is a deal breaker. (lemmy.world)
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[–] 13 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Ungoogled or not, chromium is still a problem. It has become the defacto render engine, and Google is pulling the same shit as MS did with IE.

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  • [–] -5 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Some day someone is gonna have to explain this take to me.

    Standards for the web are a good thing. Websites being slightly different to straight up breaking depending on what browser you use is an awful user experience.

    I see nothing wrong with everyone defaulting to blink and v8. Makes the web better for everyone be it users or developers.

    Chromium is open source! It feels like people's blind hatred / paranoia of big tech makes people reject it on principle more than anything.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago*

    Standards are good. What's not good is that Google controls the standards.

    Open source or not, Google currently has the ability to dictate web standards as they see fit.

    Why? There are 2 reasons:

    • Chrome has a 63.55% marketshare (as of the time of this writing) of all web browser usage
    • Maintaining your own fork of Chromium or even your own separate browser engine (Like Firefox does) is extremely difficult.

    There's a reason so many of these browsers just use Chromium. It's because Google is doing the Lion's share of the work. Modern web browsers are some of the most complicated pieces of software ever written. They are comparable in complexity to entire operating systems.

    When Google makes a change to the Chromium project everyone follows suit, lest you fork it which leaves development and ensuring interoperability entirely up to you. The complexity of this task depends on how far you want to take your browser.

    Even those who fork Chromium will pull changes made by Google to the original Chromium project because making and maintaining your own web browser is really, really difficult.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago

    They are trying to develope enough dependency on them that they could stop being open source and the majority of browsers and websites dependent on their development just fold and allow google to control the internet.

    Big companies only let stuff be open source in order to rugpull it if and when it would allow them to be successfully anticompetitive.

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