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Re:Firefox: Dark pattern consent dialog invites users to sha... by nsonha on Friday October 08, 2021 @06:39PM (#28804939)
All these forks will die because even firefox, a well organised OSS project is struggling

That leaves Edge, Chrome, Opera and Vivaldi

Because you even mentioned them, I don't think you understand the question. Let me rephrase it: who will develop, and have a sustainable business model for a new browser engine and break Chromium's monoculture, other than Firefox?

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Re:Firefox: Dark pattern consent dialog invites users to sha... by kreeben on Friday October 08, 2021 @06:44PM (#28804983)
>> firefox, a well organised OSS project

I see no proof of this.

>> is struggling

Money-wise, no. Management-wise, hell-to-the-yes.

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Re:Firefox: Dark pattern consent dialog invites users to sha... by alfiedotwtf on Friday October 08, 2021 @07:00PM (#28805091)
Every time I see Mozilla mentioned on HN, I get sad how badly they screwed things :(
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Re:Firefox: Dark pattern consent dialog invites users to sha... by sharps1 on Friday October 08, 2021 @07:05PM (#28805135)
Vivaldi only has a small team. They said in 2016 they only needed five million users to turn a profit (They generate income based on search engine referrals).

Another downside to Vivaldi is they don’t push out many releases meaning that their security is likely lagging behind. My assumption on this is their custom UI takes a while to build after a new release.

Edge and Chrome both push out timely security updates.

EDIT: Typo.

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Re:Firefox: Dark pattern consent dialog invites users to sha... by nsonha on Saturday October 09, 2021 @01:28AM (#28807291)
who cares? They are still Chrome, whether they live or die, the course of the web platform is still unaffected
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