Can we just dismiss Google in general?
this post was submitted on 10 Aug 2023
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It's firefoxing time
My favorite part was when the Firefox Mozilla’d all over the internet.
It's Mozillin' time
That's good, but as long as Chrome has 2/3rds of the browser market share, it doesn't really matter what other browsers do.
At this point I think the thing most likely to derail WEI are the US Congress and the EU. Google is flirting with getting forced to split-up like AT&T and this may be the last straw. They may decide it's not worth the extra attention from law makers to move forward with it.
I hope that the rest of the space including the W3C sticking to their guns and opposing Web Environment Integrity prevents this from doing too much damage, but Chrome's monopoly is already at such an extent that many websites only test on Chrome, and a few outright require it. As long as this is implemented in Chrome, and if people who use it get more return from ads as the proposal suggests, some websites will be willing to implement it.
This is definitely seeing more and stronger opposition than the Encrypted Media Extensions proposal, but my fear is that it will go in that direction; if big websites implement it, Mozilla, Vivaldi, and W3C will eventually cave despite their initial opposition.
I hate it. But safe bet, your right about Mozilla, & Vivaldi caving.
Quite sure google will go aheah and implement it anyway !!
They already did (I'm not sure if it is already released to user but code is in Chromium).
I've been using Chrome forever and been thinking more and more of switching back to Firefox.
I'm just too lazy :(
The time to switch back is now
You're right. Today's the day. After work I'm switching to Firefox, again.
If you find any issues like Google services not working quite as well on Firefox, don't forget you can spoof your user agent to look like Chrome so you still get the extra features such as live scoring for sports etc in search.
And if anyone here wonders how, there are extensions for Firefox to spoof your user agent agent on a site-by-site basis.