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Re:EU Digital Markets Act, aimed at Google, Apple, Amazon, a... by gentleman11 on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @11:55AM (#32167580)
Safari is possibly the biggest competitor to chrome, since Firefox is falling out of use. It’s important for the ecosystem to have a strong competitor who isn’t dependent on google
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Re:EU Digital Markets Act, aimed at Google, Apple, Amazon, a... by candiddevmike on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @01:40PM (#32169416)
Safari is only a competitor because folks don't have a choice. This would force Apple to actually compete against Chrome by giving users a reason to keep using Safari.
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Re:EU Digital Markets Act, aimed at Google, Apple, Amazon, a... by tgv on Thursday July 21, 2022 @02:19AM (#32176361)
You know what Google is doing with Chrome, right? Adding APIs for battery status, USB access, etc. will lead to more information about your device ending up in their possession.
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Re:EU Digital Markets Act, aimed at Google, Apple, Amazon, a... by solarkraft on Thursday July 21, 2022 @03:26AM (#32176711)
Aren't these APIs opt-in? Web USB certainly asks you before doing anything.
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Re:EU Digital Markets Act, aimed at Google, Apple, Amazon, a... by moonchrome on Thursday July 21, 2022 @06:42AM (#32177755)
>It’s important for the ecosystem to have a strong competitor who isn’t dependent on google

Why ? Seriously - this competition argument gets brought up and I see 0 benefit. There is almost no innovation in the low level aspects and the foundations are opensource with several tech giants contributing.

The only thing "competition" adds at this point is fragmentation, compatibility issues and slower feature adoption.

This idea that competition beats cooperation is silly - innovation in browser rendering and JS engines is mostly done - the only real innovative effort was Servo and that died - modern variants are there just for political/commercial reasons.

If every browser out there converted to Blink/V8 and development resources were focused the web would be better.

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Re:EU Digital Markets Act, aimed at Google, Apple, Amazon, a... by koshnaranek on Friday July 22, 2022 @06:25PM (#32197827)
I get the impression that firefox is regaining lost users lately
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