Comment by newsclues
1 year ago
I don't care that Google, Apple or Microsoft have their own browser.
Especially not when there are other third party browsers. Wouldn't say no to a government funded one that was secure and tested with government services.
There are some issues with the big tech giants that is likely harmful to consumers and the industry, and I'd welcome anti-trust investigations into all of them, but I feel like minor issues like browsers is an attempt to pretend like meaningful regulation and government control has been applied, while the real problems are ignored.
> Especially not when there are other third party browsers. Wouldn't say no to a government funded one that was secure and tested with government services.
Which government, though? The US is mired in corruption at the moment, and the UK is taking an extended dump on privacy, Russia is … Russia and China doesn't really believe in privacy or freedom of speech, among other things.
> third party browsers. Wouldn't say no to a government funded one that was secure and tested with government services.
Yes because the government is so well run with competent people waiting in line to join it in the era of DOGE?
Do you think that a web browser would be free of politics?
> secure and tested with government services.
The same government services that require things like recaptcha to work? The situation in the US is far worse than just "I need to use a BigTech browser to access government services".