If you care about privacy, it’s time to try a new web browser

Re:If you care about privacy, it’s time to try a new web bro... by coldtea on Saturday April 03, 2021 @12:15PM (#26682195)

>As such, Safari is basically the new IE6 — it lags all other modern browsers and prevents websites from taking advantage of nice new features

This tired trope must die. No, Safari is not "the new IE6".

The problem with IE6 was not that it lagged a few years before adopting some features, it was moving fast and implementing things on its own, forcing standards, etc, and forcing a monoculture due to his large adoption (until Firefox came).

The monoculture, moving too fast, dictating arbitrary standards, is what Google does with Chrome (and every Blink derived browser).

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Re:If you care about privacy, it’s time to try a new web bro... by true_religion on Saturday April 03, 2021 @12:25PM (#26682288)

I thought the problem was that for 8+ years it had no feature updates, and he team behind it was disbanded. So everyone hated supporting it since it was buggy, and you knew the bugs would never be fixed.

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Re:If you care about privacy, it’s time to try a new web bro... by HWR_14 on Saturday April 03, 2021 @08:10PM (#26685876)

Are you talking about IE on Mac? Because that was different from IE 6 (which was on Windows)

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Re:If you care about privacy, it’s time to try a new web bro... by iso1210 on Saturday April 03, 2021 @12:27PM (#26682309)

Safari on the iphone is probably the only thing keeping some semblence of the open web alive - it's the one place google can't take over.

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