Re:What We're Working on in Firefox
by michael9423 on Thursday May 30, 2024 @09:57PM
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End users do not care about the browser engine. But as I said, Brave is trying. It won't be successful in the way FF could have been.
> End users do not care about the browser engine.
But that's the problem, isn't it? Google controls Chromium, everybody uses Chromium, so Google controls the web.
Re:What We're Working on in Firefox
by michael9423 on Friday May 31, 2024 @04:46AM
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Not really. If everyone would use a chromium version that radically blocks trackign and ads, google wouldn't control anything.
> google wouldn't control anything.
The web is more than tracking and ads. Chromium is not an ad engine.
> End users do not care about the browser engine
but they certainly care about the search engine. I remember several years ago when Firefox changed their default search from Google to Yahoo, so many clients that we supported complained that IT's response was just to switch everyone over to chrome.
To be fair the biggest issue was that yahoo was worse with dangerous ads in their results then Google was the time.
Sure, but would the users have sided with FF? I'm not convinced. The users use whatever BigTech tells them to use, that's how I see it.
> Brave is trying to correct the mistake of FF
Brave is Chromium. I don't see how this would even begin correcting the mistakes of FF. The one thing FF does right is that it is not Chromium.