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IMO the best hedges against Googles web monopoly at the moment are Apple and Microsoft, not Mozilla. Apple because of Safari (duh) and Microsoft because they a
by wilsonnb3 3y ago
IMO the best hedges against Googles web monopoly at the moment are Apple and Microsoft, not Mozilla.
Apple because of Safari (duh) and Microsoft because they are possibly the only company that could reasonably maintain a hard Chromium fork in the case of Google going crazy.
Unfortunately all three of them are more or less aligned on this issue of remote attestation so I don't really see a path forward.
Firefox just doesn't have the market share to matter. If everyone had switched to it 10 years ago there might have been a chance but the goose is cooked.
- wkat4242 3y agoThis might be the trigger for people to use it again though.
- jacooper 3y agoNo normal user cares, they didn't care when Safetynet remote attestion was rolled out, and they won't care this time either. Chances are normal users who use Firefox for some features like tab containers will just leave.
- Brian_K_White 3y agoNeither Microsoft nor Apple has any problem with your or my problem with Google.
- raxxorraxor 3y agoThe best course against web integrity is not let it establish itself. So we need to identity attestation servers and block them on the networks we maintain.