You are right. A lot of people here seem very proud of themselves for installing a Chromium derivative or using Chrome itself. They don't seem to realize that w

You are right. A lot of people here seem very proud of themselves for installing a Chromium derivative or using Chrome itself. They don't seem to realize that without Mozilla, Google effectively controls web standards far more than Microsoft was ever able to dream of. The web is going to be whatever they dictate it to be. There's nobody left to challenge them. Most of the old competition has thrown the hat in the ring. Opera killed their browsing engine long time ago. MS followed when they released Edge. Apple is still holding out with Safari of course but only on Apple controlled operating systems. There are a few independent engines with minuscule market share. And there is Mozilla. There are a gazillion Chromium based browsers and they are each dependent on Google developing and maintaining that. Google controls its roadmap, the internals that render your pages, it employs the engineers working on it, and the gate keepers vetting the occasional pull request from outside Google. But lets be honest, most of the work is done by Google engineers. Nothing happens to Chromium without their consent and backing. They control it completely. So, the likes of Brave, Edge, Opera, etc. might do a fine job adding their window dressing, minor tweaks, and what not. But they are outsourcing the core browsing components to Google. Without Mozilla it's down to just Apple and Google running the show. Apple has Safari and Google has Chrome. The rest does not really matter since it is effectively all Chromium. Unless you are paying the Apple tax, you'll have just one choice: consume the web via a Google provided code base. That's why it is important to keep Mozilla going. With three major browsing engines, most websites have to make sure to work with all of them. Apple, Mozilla, and Google have been doing great work together in standardizing what they do and collaborating on new non exclusive features that each of them then implement in a way that works the same in each browser. Mozilla has a crucial role in keeping the other two honest. It matters. And Firefox is pretty nice. I use it on desktop and on Android.