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Firefox is the only way. (lemmy.world)
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[–] 17 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Yeah, it's weird for them to rely on Google considering how hard Valve has worked to make Steam independent from MS.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    It probably doesn't matter for what they do. There isn't really much need for an ad blocker on a browser that's going to a store page which is essentially an ad for a product in and of itself. A steam user actually wants that store page to load, why would there be a need for a store page?

    And they could transition to something else if Google does something that affects them.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Chromium isn't technically Google

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    It's maintained by Google, which is pretty much the same thing - in the end, they get to decide what features get implemented and what doesn't make the cut. Sure we can fork it, and we can make our own, but in the end as long as their code is the main base, they have a lot of control over all the different forks, as usually the forks will have to keep rebasing their code off of new updates to stay as secure and up to date as possible.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    It is, good luck hard forking such a huge codebase.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    I mean what would stop a company from doing that? I get why they don't, because a lot of changes and fixes get implemented into the code from various companies/individuals, but if you had enough manpower and money, it could be done.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I don't think it's too weird. So many apps today are just Chromium wrappers. It's just easier to use a premade base, plus you don't have to develop the web and desktop version independently, they can literally be the same code.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    While that's fairly typical and good practice in dev circles, we're talking about a company that's single handedly elevated an entire OS to prevent a big company taking too much power. I think the key here is they don't really compete with Google.

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