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To me blink as a render engine is too closely coupled to Google. Even though technically chromium is disconnected and open source, the amount of leverage Google
by cbondurant 11mo ago
To me blink as a render engine is too closely coupled to Google. Even though technically chromium is disconnected and open source, the amount of leverage Google has is too high.
I dread the possibility that gecko and webkit browsers truly die out, and the single biggest name in web advertising has unilateral sway over the direction of web standards.
A good example of this is that through the exclusive leverage of Google, all blink based browsers are phasing out support for Manifest V2. A widely unpopular, forcing change. If I'm using a blink based browser I become vulnerable to any other profit motivated changes like that one.
Mozilla might be trying their hardest to do the same with this AI shlock, but if I have to choose between the trillion dollar market cap dictator of the internet and the little kid playing pretend evil billionaire in their sandbox? Well, Mozilla is definitely the less threatening of the two in that regard.
- bigyabai 11mo ago> If I'm using a blink based browser I become vulnerable to any other profit motivated changes like that one. Only if your OEM prevents you from installing competing browser engines. For most real computers it's not a concern.
- 1718627440 11mo agoYeah, what IS preventing you is the lack of competing browsers.
- charcircuit 11mo agoBut notably not lack of competing browser engines as the power of these decisions come from the product and not the open source libraries the product uses.
- 7bit 11mo agoOof, maybe read his comment again...
- charcircuit 11mo ago[flagged]
- rjdj377dhabsn 11mo agoI don't know the details, but breaking uBO was the obvious negative impact for users. Is there some additional information that you think would change the opinion of the users who want strong adblocking capabilities?
- charcircuit 11mo ago[flagged]
- Blackthorn 11mo agoThere's the not-so-small problem that the replacement for UBO is noticeably worse in many ways, which is entirely the fault of MV3.
- charcircuit 11mo ago[flagged]
- Blackthorn 11mo agoIt's not necessarily about that performance, but importing lists, blacklisting sections, etc.