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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DahGangalang@infosec.pub 8 months agoI worry even Firefox is losing its principles on the matter.
fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
dojan@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I feel this.
programmer_belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Then use a firefox fork that’s more in line with your beliefs. It’s a pro of open source
ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.world 8 months ago
chromium is open source too.
joyjoy@lemm.ee 8 months ago
But Chrome, the actual application you download (as well as several forks), is closed source.
ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Agreed. I just wanted to point out that you can have open source with a chromium based browser
dojan@lemmy.world 8 months 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.
ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 8 months ago
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