Comment on FF Evangelists

• programmer_belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Then use a firefox fork that’s more in line with your beliefs. It’s a pro of open source

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  • ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    chromium is open source too.

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    • joyjoy@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      But Chrome, the actual application you download (as well as several forks), is closed source.

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      • ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Agreed. I just wanted to point out that you can have open source with a chromium based browser

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    • dojan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Google still has control over Chromium. Manifest v3 is a Chromium thing, not a Chrome thing. All forks of Chromium will get it and none of the browsers using Chromium as a base has moved to fork and maintain their own version of Chromium.

      This means that Google effectively has a monopoly over all browsers that aren’t WebKit or Gecko based, which is a tiny portion of all browsers. Leading to Google deciding how people access the internet. It’s already worrying that Google is the internet for a lot of people, the fact that they can do more or less anything with Chromium means that they can do whatever they want with the web standard.

      That should be a major concern for everyone. Chromium needs to be taken away from Google.

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      • ulterno@lemmy.kde.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        all browsers that aren’t WebKit or Gecko

        I don’t get this part. Are all engines other than those 2, based on Chromium?

        Perhaps you are forgetting Ze great Konqueror ?

        Because it has always been KHTML.

        There’s a meme for that. Check it out

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• fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yeah I think so.

  Their quest for a revenue stream is leading them down a dark path imo.

  I mean I get that they need money. I don’t really have a solution. I just feel very uneasy about where this is headed.

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• dojan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I feel this.

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