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I'm really on the fence because I don't want a Google owned web, but at the same time, IMHO Chromium is the superior browser engine out there. I'd like to see i

I'm really on the fence because I don't want a Google owned web, but at the same time, IMHO Chromium is the superior browser engine out there. I'd like to see it be pulled out of their control (donated by them willingly) and put into maybe like a browser foundation where all major browsers that are built on top of it vote and get a say in how it goes, just like most foundations. I'd rather we have a single unified web experience than hacking around various browser engines to display on our sites. Browsers should just be skins over this unified experience to add their own quirks they want, be it Google login shit or Microsoft's shit or even Brave's crypto shit.

em-bee 3y ago
even if chromium was freed from google, that would not be good enough. code-monoculture is dangerous. we really need multiple implementations of widely used applications to reduce the risk of exploits that would affect everyone. that goes for browsers, smtp or dns servers and anything else that is publicly accessible. (browsers are "accessible" through the websites we visit) i am with the top poster of this subthread. i absolutely refuse to use anything chrome based to avoid furthering a monoculture.
JohnFen 3y ago
> Browsers should just be skins over this unified experience to add their own quirks they want Oh, no. Please no.