Apple's claim is that it bans other browsers for security

Re:Apple's claim is that it bans other browsers for security by acdha on Monday June 27, 2022 @02:47PM (#31898913)

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.

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Re:Apple's claim is that it bans other browsers for security by nneonneo on Tuesday June 28, 2022 @07:35AM (#31906415)

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.

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