• allalae@orcas.enjoying.yachts
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    1 year ago

    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.

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          1 year ago

          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)

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            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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      Funny you mention Safari, because you know, Safari is the only browser allowed on iOS. Every other browser has to use Safari to render web pages if they want to be in App Store - once again the only allowed source of packages.

      Safari on iOS is literally worse than IE and Chrome combined.

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      1 year ago

      Unfortunately for Android, Chromium based browsers are, at the moment, significantly more secure than Firefox based ones.

      Edit: For the people down voting me, feel free to make a principled stand to avoid Chromium browsers on Android, just understand the risks. Again, specifically for Android. Here’s some reading:

      https://divestos.org/pages/browsers