This article is doing a great job discussing browsers, but overlooks the real discussion which is about content.

Is there an alternative to the corporate ad-based web app model?

Is there merit to some of the forgotten early internet? Of course. Forums, for instance, are much better at retaining information than facebook groups. But there is no massive corporation making a huge profit off of forums.

I feel like the internet could be infinitely better but we have very little say about it. It's completely owned by corporations which don't care about their users besides being a source of money. Leaving the most important resource available to humanity to be developed by corporations is a double edged sword.