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Unpopular opinion: Personally, I'd love to see Mozilla take on Apple in court. Firefox, Gecko rendering engine and all, should be on iOS. Not allowing competin
by indymike 5y ago
Unpopular opinion: Personally, I'd love to see Mozilla take on Apple in court. Firefox, Gecko rendering engine and all, should be on iOS. Not allowing competing browsers is more anti-competitive than not allowing third party payments for in-app purchases, and would lead to incredible amounts of innovation.
- tgv 5y agoThat would then lead to Chrome being allowed on iOS too, undoing any potential gain in a day. There's (IMO) nothing anti-competitive about not allowing other browsers. They all serve the same web pages. Cynical take: if Mozilla were to start such a law suit, it would be to avoid Google having to disclose how much money they make from Chrome users.
- arepublicadoceu 5y agoNot unpopular at all around here, except that Mozilla going to court against a behemoth is a sure way to drain all their funding for little to no gain (there’s no evidence that firefox would gain more users with their engine on iOS). Mozilla should use their money to improve their browser on desktop and mobile. Firefox on iOS shows how little Mozilla cares about the platform. For instance, no real adblock, they only have a tracker blocker which blocks most ads but misses a LOT of web annoyances like cookie banners and YouTube ads. Example of third party browsers with full featured adblockers: - edge have adblock plus - brave have a built in adblock - iCab Their reader mode is extremely amateurish compared to safari. Increasing font size makes the title of the article absolutely huge.
- SV_BubbleTime 5y ago> Firefox on iOS shows how little Mozilla cares about the platform. I agree, but also aren’t alternative browsers on IOS still just window dressing? Since the backend is always Safari?