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> I am referring to the Chromium open source project. Not the derivatives. You can argue that everyone removes it, but that further shows how unwanted it is. N
by wayneftw 5y ago
> I am referring to the Chromium open source project. Not the derivatives. You can argue that everyone removes it, but that further shows how unwanted it is.
Nobody is disagreeing that FLoC is unwanted though. It's a completely irrelevant point. There is no browser monoculture and there is no browser-engine monoculture. We've mentioned 3 engines and at least 5 browsers here. You're arguing that Google is in complete control of Chromium as if that means anything, when every Chromium based browser is not simply dancing to Google's tune.
> Still very small. Less than 20%?
More than Firefox and it absolutely defies your point that there is a monoculture. There is not.
> The difference is the lack of corporate malice...
Yeah it's so malicious that you can turn it right off if you wish to or just use a different browser seeing as how there is no monoculture.
> Not particularly sure what you mean here - this is just showing that edge is also contributing to the browser monoculture...
You keep using that word but I don't think you know what it actually means. There simply is no monoculture, not in browsers and not in browser engines. Sorry to break it to ya, but you're completely wrong on that point and no amount of illogical rationalization will make it true.
- sodality2 5y agoI'd consider 70%+ market share a monoculture especially when you consider that it's significantly higher on PC. Edge, the default, now uses the Chromium engine. That right there is probably 95% of people. Why do you not think that's a monoculture when I regularly encounter devs who don't bother checking ANYTHING with Firefox?
- wayneftw 5y ago> I'd consider 70%+ market share a monoculture...Why do you not think that's a monoculture...? And you'd still be wrong. First, because of the definition of the word "monoculture" [0] and secondly because Chrome is only at about 65% [1]. > when I regularly encounter devs who don't bother checking ANYTHING with Firefox? Sounds about right. I'm one of them and I look forward to Firefox and Mozilla just up and disappearing one day because honestly, it's a dumpster fire of a browser and the culture at Mozilla is simply detestable. [0] "the cultivation of a SINGLE crop in a given area" [1] https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share#monthly-202105-202105-bar https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share#monthly-2021...