Re:Apple's claim is that it bans other browsers for security
by techdragon on Monday June 27, 2022 @01:09PM
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GitHub visitors are definitely not a representative sample of the web browsing public.
Re:Apple's claim is that it bans other browsers for security
by jenny91 on Monday June 27, 2022 @01:38PM
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Absolutely. Including the 2% from Python scripts :P
Re:Apple's claim is that it bans other browsers for security
by asdff on Monday June 27, 2022 @08:35PM
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Those are probably running headless chrome though
Re:Apple's claim is that it bans other browsers for security
by acdha on Monday June 27, 2022 @02:47PM
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It's more traffic than Safari, but Firefox also runs on platforms like Windows or Linux and has disproportionately large mindshare among open source developers. Give how much higher that number was 10 years ago, I think this counts in support of the original point: Google has poured a ton of effort into promoting Chrome and “accidentally”[1] offering a worse experience for other browsers in their site and nobody other than Apple seems to have been successful at resisting this.
1. Whether this is an overt policy or simply choosing to skimp on testing, it's a choice.
Re:Apple's claim is that it bans other browsers for security
by nneonneo on Tuesday June 28, 2022 @07:35AM
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Ran into a fun Google bug today: on the default macOS Safari install, Google Drive refused to download a folder once it had more than about a dozen files. It would go through the entire “zipping the files up” step and then mysteriously fail at the end, blaming cookies (?).
The workarounds are to use Chrome, download files in tiny batches (much fun with 500 photos in the folder), or work out through trial and error that Google wanted the Safari tracking prevention disabled before it would download a file.
https://github.blog/2022-06-10-how-we-think-about-browsers/
Of course this is just part of the story. In every country it's different. In some EU countries Firefox is up to 20%. In UK it's almost non-existent. Local markets shape the browser support. If a few major websites are too lazy to support a browser properly, users will leave, and then others can say "there are no users, so we can stop supporting!".