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I use Edge. I think Edge is a realistically viable competitor, especially with Bing chat sidebar. It's also faster than Safari on MacOS
by cft 3y ago
I use Edge. I think Edge is a realistically viable competitor, especially with Bing chat sidebar. It's also faster than Safari on MacOS
- jacquesm 3y agoThat's just exchanging one demon on your shoulder for another.
- slondr 3y agoEdge is just chromium. It is not a competitor.
- mrweasel 3y agoWith few exceptions the browser market is a lot like the Volkswagen Group. They design key components and depending on market segment they slap a Audi, VW or Skoda label on it, do a few tweaks to the look and feel and add a few features that they know that a particular segment wants. Under "chrome" it's a Volkswagen.
- dillydogg 3y agoI think the person you are responding to would say that edge is just another chromium skin. It doesn't exactly relieve Google's monopoly on browser technology
- CatWChainsaw 3y agoanother chromium skin with extra tracking. I believe Edge tracks by hardware ID more aggressively than Chrome or chromium.
- papruapap 3y agoIt should fairly simple for MS to block this API (if they wish to).
- Moldoteck 3y agodepends how the api is designed. If it'll be integrated deep into chromium, disabling it would cost too much time
- notpushkin 3y agoI don't think so. Even if it's impossible to exclude it from the builds, they can just remove it from the JavaScript global scope or something.
- adrianN 3y agoWhy would they? They make money with ads too
- papruapap 3y agoBut Googles makes way more, will make compete with Google even harder in the future (deeper pockets).
- mozball 3y agoMicrosoft is exactly the kind of company that would throw its full backing behind this google proposal, seeing how they have spent the last 20 years working towards the same goal. See Windows 11, Trusted Platform Module, Pluton, Palladium, SecureBoot.
- NoGravitas 3y agoNot only is Edge based on Chromium, as a major operating system vendor with strong influence on the hardware market, Microsoft is well positioned to be one of the widely-accepted attesters. So they have little motivation to oppose this proposal.