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[–] allalae@orcas.enjoying.yachts 44 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Using chromium based browsers keeps power over web standards and such in google's hands, i.e enforces their ever growing monopoly. So if you want a competitive/fair environment on the web, it's best to avoid them altogether and stick to firefox or safari.

[–] bernieecclestoned@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Aren't Firefox funded by Google in order to present a false sense of competition in the browser market?

[–] DrDeadCrash@programming.dev 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Google pays to be the default search in Firefox, it was Bing for a while.

[–] nintendoit@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also it pays to keep mozilla alive.It helps in defending anti-competitive lawsuits.

Sad to say there are only two engines available for the open web.(Not considering Safari as that is only available on apple)

[–] Satelllliiiiiiiteeee@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The WebKit engine Safari uses is still open source, Gnome Web and Konqueror use it. It definitely has a small non-apple userbase but it's an option

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