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Re:Firefox is the alternative to a Chrome hegemony by zepto on Monday November 29, 2021 @09:45AM (#29380421)
It’s not innovation if it’s just catching up to what another platform has been able to do all along.
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Re:Firefox is the alternative to a Chrome hegemony by ygjb on Monday November 29, 2021 @03:32PM (#29384867)
In a walled garden, the ability to for the user to do what they want, where they want is perceived as innovation.
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Re:Firefox is the alternative to a Chrome hegemony by zepto on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @12:21AM (#29389221)
The user can’t do what they want where they want on the web. The web is an adware and privacy destroying machine.
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Re:Firefox is the alternative to a Chrome hegemony by smoldesu on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @11:04AM (#29393603)
> The user can’t do what they want where they want on the web. The web is an adware and privacy destroying machine.

Sounds like you're setting a double standard when Apple also runs ads on their devices[0] as well as selling their user's private data[1]

[0] https://stevestreza.com/2020/02/17/ios-adware/

[1] https://www.macrumors.com/2021/11/26/apple-italy-fine-user-d...

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Re:Firefox is the alternative to a Chrome hegemony by zepto on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @07:12AM (#29402966)
> Sounds like you're setting a double standard when Apple also runs ads on their devices[0] as well as selling their user's private data[1]

Anyone who claims those are equivalent to what is going on on the web is being dishonest.

Neither of the articles even claims that Apple was “selling user data”, so that’s a straight up lie.

I can’t help you if you are going to post links that don’t say what you claim they are saying.

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