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Explain it to me like I am 5. Everybody should know what this is about.
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A bit clearer now. But to my knowledge, Google does not 'own' the internet, it is just popular as a search engine, browser, emails+personal information.
What if the common man decides to another browser, say chrome or edge, and search engine such as duckduckgo or bing, how will Google's proposed changes affect such use cases?
Most browsers use Chromium as the basis of how it works and these are how we access the internet’s websites. Chromium was invented by Google and both browsers you mentioned run on Chromium.
It’s not that Google controls the internet, but the vehicle (your browser) you use kind of does. And most of the vehicles are built using the code from the company that wants to impose this.
Browsers not run on Chromium:
I want to add Ladybird as one option for a new browser. It's still in its early days, but is under active development. I hope that one day it'll be in such a shape that it could be used as a daily driver. It's Open Source and built from scratch. It's awesome to follow the development of such a big project!
Where can I get Ladybird for Android?
As I mentioned it's still in it's early days. They're working on the standards and support for all CSS properties and JS at the same time. The pages don't work yet, but things are moving forward every day. Don't know if someone will work on an Android version, it's open source after all. Currently it's working on SerenityOS and Linux.
I just wanted to voice out that there are alternatives in the works, that has nothing to do with Google or the other big tech companies.
Why Ladybird over firefox?
At this point in time, since it's under heavy development, I wouldn't use it as a daily driver. I hope some day it will have enough features to compete with all the other browsers. I just wanted to bring Ladybird up so it gets some visibility in the world.
It's an open source browser, continuously being worked on, started from scratch, so it'll be a while before there are enough support for all the websites in the world. Even the JavaScript engine is built from scratch, which makes this project really exciting IMHO.