Re:Blocked by Cloudflare
by adrr on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @12:53PM
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Users want to chrome hegemony and don't care about the open web or Firefox. Its the number #1 browser on desktop even though it doesn't come with the OS. Windows comes with edge and macs come with safari. Users have to download Chrome.
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All browsers so far have come and gone in popularity. Even when it seemed unimaginable.
But today everything but Firefox is Chromium.
That's a little different
And 20 years ago everything was IE (at >90% penetration)
The problem is Chromium ,not Chrome
Like you have the illusion of choice, that's what I'm talking about and that's different
Firefox entered into a contract per-install with Google that did no evil while Google iirc was building their own browser secretly.
Browser engines are now open source a lot more than they were.
I don’t think it’s about illusion of choice as much as some browsers actively working to degooglify themselves from Chromium and maintain it.
Some browsers are maintaining their own forks, others aren’t.