Comment by someothherguyy
3 months ago
It would be nice to see Firefox implement a few features browsers like brave have, like being able to automatically clear cookies for a site when leaving it, and to make containers available when in private browsing, ah well.
This is pretty handy and I've been using it for years[0].
I like the idea of Brave but we have a bigger fight that requires us to have no chromium. Chromium winning is Google winning, allowing them to control the Internet. I don't want that power in any single entity's hands. So I do ask that more people switch to Firefox or Safari as those are the best options to fight back and have decent market shares (even if small). If we lose the internet we'll lose our privacy too
[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-autode...
The real power is in who owns the product. Since chromium is open source. A fork can be made at anytime. For the web there is a lot of common code that is useful to share between browsers.
Your take is quite naïve. The problem is that Google is controlling all the protocols. We're already in a situation where chrome, and consequently chromium, is "the most up to date browser" because Google has a heavy influence in dictating what those standards are. This is, of course, why people fork chromium in the first place, because it gives them a leg up not needing to build everything from scratch and allows them to pull in security updates and new protocols as Google releases them. But that last part is the problem.
So in a way you're right. But the owner is Google as long as you are forking chromium. Because they control to protocols. Maybe they don't own the roads, but does that matter if they get to dictate how all the roads get used and how all the maps are made? You don't need to own the roads to control them
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