Re:A list of recent hostile moves by Google's Chrome team
by bbarnett on Thursday August 03, 2023 @09:35AM
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And then Microsoft just sort of gave up: they moved Edge to Chromium which, at the time, I thought was a mistake and bad for the browser landscape and, no surprise, so it has turned out to be.
I personally loath Microsoft, and xame up through the Commodore tract, into Linux. Never could stand the company, their products.
I won't blindly dislike, I had my reasons, but it's been a long time since the early years. So I tried Edge for android, back when Microsoft was going on about not being an ads platform like Google.
I thought, OK, maybe they've ripped out Google's tracking. Made it less invasive, maybe they'll even enable pinch zoom and reflow, like Opera does.
Nope. None of that. And the amount of phone home I saw with tcpdump was mind bogglng.
So sad. They could have taken chrome, made it non-invasive, added pinch zoom and reflow, and lots of other such things. I'd have used it, been happy with it, sing their praises.
But instead, it's the same old, short range, junk.
I personally loath Microsoft, and xame up through the Commodore tract, into Linux. Never could stand the company, their products.
I won't blindly dislike, I had my reasons, but it's been a long time since the early years. So I tried Edge for android, back when Microsoft was going on about not being an ads platform like Google.
I thought, OK, maybe they've ripped out Google's tracking. Made it less invasive, maybe they'll even enable pinch zoom and reflow, like Opera does.
Nope. None of that. And the amount of phone home I saw with tcpdump was mind bogglng.
So sad. They could have taken chrome, made it non-invasive, added pinch zoom and reflow, and lots of other such things. I'd have used it, been happy with it, sing their praises.
But instead, it's the same old, short range, junk.