With the number of people concerned about privacy, it is a wonder why chrome is even popular.
Except it’s not a monopoly and they don’t have control. It’s an open source project. They provide basic building blocks. Say it with me now: “Chromium-based browsers are not Chrome”.
If that’s your view, you’d better avoid Graphene, Calyx and basically every other mobile OS that isn’t iOS because they’re all built on AOSP.
It is a monopoly. They’ve been doing crap like not adhering to common standards and adding their own stuff on top so that chrome compatible websites might not work in Firefox. That wouldn’t be the case if they weren’t so big so as to force others to follow whatever design choices they make.
They’ve been doing crap like not adhering to common standards
Then those standards can be installed in their respective forks. I don’t know how many times I can say “Chromium is not Chrome” before you people understand this.
I perfectly understand that chromium is not chrome. Unfortunately the development of modern web browsers is so fast and complicated that it isn’t possible to maintain a fork that is secure by a small organisation. You can do cosmetic things like Vivaldi or brave or whatever but forking the engine itself is a herculean task. See how well palemoon or waterfox are faring.
