U.S. House committee approves blueprint for Big Tech crackdown

Re:U.S. House committee approves blueprint for Big Tech crac... by twobitshifter on Friday April 16, 2021 @11:01AM (#26834737)

On Desktop, how many rendering engines are there out there today? 3? Most browser creators cannot afford to create their own rendering engine, so we get Gecko, WebKit, or Blink.

With this in mind, when you’re asking for alternative rendering engines, you’re really asking for Google to be able to get their hooks into iOS. It would be nice if Mozilla were free to develop their own engine but that’s not without downside and the most likely outcome is an iOS dominated by Chrome and ad-tracking.

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Re:U.S. House committee approves blueprint for Big Tech crac... by spideymans on Friday April 16, 2021 @01:07PM (#26836499)

> It would be nice if Mozilla were free to develop their own engine but that’s not without downside and the most likely outcome is an iOS dominated by Chrome and ad-tracking

The impacts go beyond iOS. The reality is that Safari is the only thing standing in the way of Google having IE-style dominance of browser usage share. As of now, Chromium has just under 80% usage share. If Chromium were as dominant as iOS as it is on desktop, it’s usage share would likely exceed 90%

Alternate engines are a fine idea in principle, but we need to consider whether a Chromium monopoly on the web is indeed an improvement from the status quo.

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Re:U.S. House committee approves blueprint for Big Tech crac... by aww_dang on Friday April 16, 2021 @02:59PM (#26837734)

It would be nice if developers could debug Safari specific issues without jumping through Apple imposed hoops.

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