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Re:Google had a plan called “Project NERA” to turn the web i... by josteink on Sunday October 24, 2021 @11:06AM (#28978587)
> but I am honestly astounded by people who think it's a good reason to switch to Chrome

Who says switching away from Firefox means you have to switch to Chrome, the Google-controlled browser?

That seems like a false dichotomy to me.

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Re:Google had a plan called “Project NERA” to turn the web i... by LarryDarrell on Sunday October 24, 2021 @12:46PM (#28979581)
Who exerts the most control over Chromium? Google shareholders or the OSS community? How much Chromium development is done by people not employed by Google or now Microsoft?

Brave/Edge/Vivaldi/Opera are all Google controlled browsers. Just because you can slap your own logo and build a sync system on top of Chromium does not mean they get to have any say in how Chromium consumes the Internet.

Sure, less data gets sent directly to Google. But when Google says[1], Chromium will not allow you to completely block autoplaying videos, it takes years to for the clones add an option to block[2].

[1] https://developer.chrome.com/blog/autoplay/ [2] https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/40377/option-to-disable-auto...

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Re:Google had a plan called “Project NERA” to turn the web i... by lobocinza on Sunday October 24, 2021 @11:45AM (#28978995)
Most others are Chromium based. But I see no reason to switch to Chrome when we have Chromium available in every Linux distribution and Brave for Windows/Mobile.
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Re:Google had a plan called “Project NERA” to turn the web i... by tsimionescu on Sunday October 24, 2021 @04:04PM (#28981385)
Is there really any alternative to Chrome (outside of the Apple ecosystem)? Vivaldi is Chrome, Edge is Chrome, Opera is Chrome, Brave is Chrome.

Sure, technically they're Chromium, not Chrome, and probably you don't share your data with Google (though who can say for sure). But whichever you choose, you're still allowing Google to control the Web ecosystem, from web standards to ad blocking.

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