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Please don’t use Chromium based browsers. Support real alternatives like Firefox.

by bronxpockfabz 3y ago

ben_w 3y ago
I have no idea why I'm supposed to care what it's based on. Does this make any difference at all to the tracking?
- lwansbrough 3y ago
  Fair question. I think in the long run it does. Chromium development is supported by Google and could be closed any time, leaving Chromium based browsers unable to pick up the slack. Without viable alternatives to Chromium people would return to Chrome.
  - FoxBJK 3y ago
    Google does some stupid things, but Chromium is "too big to fail" at this point and it's too essential to products like Android which are also at that same point. But hypothetically if Google stopped contributing to Chromium the project would be forked and it would live on. Frankly, Google removing themselves from Chromium would fix the one major complaint a lot of people have with it.
    - swiftcoder 3y ago
      I wonder how that works if Google wants to kill the forks. There are a bunch of important components like widevine that can be withheld to put pressure on the project.
  - 5e92cb50239222b 3y ago
    Google also could cut off Mozilla's funding in a heartbeat. Since their management is incompetent (but their engineers are awesome and I love them), they haven't done any serious attempts to diversify their sources of income, or at least to put some of that cash away for a rainy day. Firefox is just as dependent on Google as are any of the Chromium rebuilds. (I am writing this as someone who has been using Firefox since about 2006 non-stop, seeing its market share drop by a factor of ten in that time).
- bekicot 3y ago
  It is not. But I like the perspective from here: https://batsov.com/articles/2021/11/28/firefox-is-the-only-alternative/ https://batsov.com/articles/2021/11/28/firefox-is-the-only-a...
sickofparadox 3y ago
Why should anyone care about Firefox when not even their parent company cares about it? Mozilla exists solely at the whims of Google anyway. The fight is long over, people on here just haven't accepted it yet.
- olyjohn 3y ago
  Fuck that. Everybody just gives up at the slightest inconvenience and uses Chrome. It's not even that much work to just use Firefox. Keep up the good fight.

Please don’t use Chromium based browsers. Support real alternatives like Firefox.

ben_w 3y ago

I have no idea why I'm supposed to care what it's based on. Does this make any difference at all to the tracking?

lwansbrough 3y ago
Fair question. I think in the long run it does. Chromium development is supported by Google and could be closed any time, leaving Chromium based browsers unable to pick up the slack. Without viable alternatives to Chromium people would return to Chrome.
- FoxBJK 3y ago
  Google does some stupid things, but Chromium is "too big to fail" at this point and it's too essential to products like Android which are also at that same point. But hypothetically if Google stopped contributing to Chromium the project would be forked and it would live on. Frankly, Google removing themselves from Chromium would fix the one major complaint a lot of people have with it.
  - swiftcoder 3y ago
    I wonder how that works if Google wants to kill the forks. There are a bunch of important components like widevine that can be withheld to put pressure on the project.
- 5e92cb50239222b 3y ago
  Google also could cut off Mozilla's funding in a heartbeat. Since their management is incompetent (but their engineers are awesome and I love them), they haven't done any serious attempts to diversify their sources of income, or at least to put some of that cash away for a rainy day. Firefox is just as dependent on Google as are any of the Chromium rebuilds. (I am writing this as someone who has been using Firefox since about 2006 non-stop, seeing its market share drop by a factor of ten in that time).
bekicot 3y ago
It is not. But I like the perspective from here: https://batsov.com/articles/2021/11/28/firefox-is-the-only-alternative/ https://batsov.com/articles/2021/11/28/firefox-is-the-only-a...

sickofparadox 3y ago

Why should anyone care about Firefox when not even their parent company cares about it? Mozilla exists solely at the whims of Google anyway. The fight is long over, people on here just haven't accepted it yet.

olyjohn 3y ago
Fuck that. Everybody just gives up at the slightest inconvenience and uses Chrome. It's not even that much work to just use Firefox. Keep up the good fight.