• GHiLA@sh.itjust.works
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    23 days ago

    Zero loyalties.

    If Firefox did something similar, they’d be off my drive before I finished the article.

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      23 days ago

      Chrome is a web browser created and maintained by an advertising company. This whole situation was never going to go any other way.

      Firefox is equally doomed since so much of their current revenue comes from Google.

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        We have a foundation dedicated to the development of an entire kernel, but a web browser is a stretch.

        (It indeed may be a stretch)

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          Who’s “we”, though? Here’s the list of Linux Foundation members: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/members It’s a foundation by, and for, commercial interests; not the users. If the same interests made up a foundation to develop a browser, it wouldn’t be different from Chrome; because in the realm where browsers are supposed to work, those ‘commercial interests’ would demand doing what Chrome does.

          It’s a ‘happy accident’ that with respect to a unix-like OS kernel, the interests of the industry ended up being compatible with the interests of the user.