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> is this something that literally anyone asked for Google executives probably. This is what you get when you hand control of the entire web platform over to a

> is this something that literally anyone asked for Google executives probably. This is what you get when you hand control of the entire web platform over to an ad company. And the only way to stop it is to depose Chrome as the dominant platform. And no, that does not mean switch to Brave or Edge. Chrome forks by and large fall in line with Chrome's choices. Firefox or Safari are the only choices.

_Understated_ 6y ago
> And no, that does not mean switch to Brave or Edge. Chrome forks by and large fall in line with Chrome's choices Not sure I'd agree with that. Of course, Edge is built on Chromium, but Microsoft are free to make their own changes, and to reverse any changes from Google that they don't like. So, in this case, Edge can give you all the performance characteristics of Google's own Chrome browser but without the ads... win-win I reckon.
- ocdtrekkie 6y ago
  Edge is better than Chrome, but only slightly: Microsoft has chosen to largely follow all of Google's platform decisions, including Manifest V3. The Edge PM is a former Googler, and is absolutely unable to grasp that he's collaborating with the enemy half the time. With the increased privacy features built-in, it's definitely an improvement, and feeding Microsoft is less bad than feeding Google, but I'm not confident Edge's current developers have the backbone to stand up to Google's decisions.
dsissitka 6y ago
> And no, that does not mean switch to Brave or Edge. Chrome forks by and large fall in line with Chrome's choices. Firefox or Safari are the only choices. What choices? After seeing how they responded to Manifest v3 Mozilla seems pretty spineless compared to Brave.
TrinaryWorksToo 6y ago
So we're basically back to ad-supported Opera then?
- ocdtrekkie 6y ago
  Opera is also a Chrome fork now. Firefox and Safari are the only two major browsers not based on Google code.

_Understated_ 6y ago

> And no, that does not mean switch to Brave or Edge. Chrome forks by and large fall in line with Chrome's choices Not sure I'd agree with that. Of course, Edge is built on Chromium, but Microsoft are free to make their own changes, and to reverse any changes from Google that they don't like. So, in this case, Edge can give you all the performance characteristics of Google's own Chrome browser but without the ads... win-win I reckon.

ocdtrekkie 6y ago
Edge is better than Chrome, but only slightly: Microsoft has chosen to largely follow all of Google's platform decisions, including Manifest V3. The Edge PM is a former Googler, and is absolutely unable to grasp that he's collaborating with the enemy half the time. With the increased privacy features built-in, it's definitely an improvement, and feeding Microsoft is less bad than feeding Google, but I'm not confident Edge's current developers have the backbone to stand up to Google's decisions.

dsissitka 6y ago

> And no, that does not mean switch to Brave or Edge. Chrome forks by and large fall in line with Chrome's choices. Firefox or Safari are the only choices. What choices? After seeing how they responded to Manifest v3 Mozilla seems pretty spineless compared to Brave.

TrinaryWorksToo 6y ago

So we're basically back to ad-supported Opera then?

ocdtrekkie 6y ago
Opera is also a Chrome fork now. Firefox and Safari are the only two major browsers not based on Google code.