Comment by vel0city
1 day ago
Outside of WebUSB I personally haven't meaningfully been impacted in any ways. Can you share which ways this is?
Note, this is separate from a "so many things are just Chromium", which I agree is an issue, but isn't the same as a "Google Chrome is a monopoly". Because in the end there are still many non-Chrome browsers which support WebUSB which do not end up with a lot of the downsides of Chrome specifically about Google harvesting your data and what not.
Ah, the "this doesn't fit my very specific technicality argument"
You know full well what people mean when they say "Chrome"
> You know full well what people mean when they say "Chrome"
Yeah, Chrome, the web browser made by Google that bugs you to sign in with your Google Account. Most people don't mean Microsoft Edge when you say "Chrome". Do you call Microsoft Edge "Chrome"?
Chrome is a product made by Google that is a web browser. If the argument is Chromium is too interwoven, that's a separate argument.
But even then, what does it mean that "Chromium is a monopoly"? Is Linux a monopoly as well? Why or why not?
Note you haven't actually given me any other ways one would be impacted like I asked. What are the other majorly missing features Chrome pushes that other browsers don't have that most sites require? What else am I missing by not using a non-Chromium-based browser?
> what does it mean that "Chromium is a monopoly"
As someone else said earlier, it is a monopoly by extending the internet in ways that force users into using their browser engine. Due to market share and Google's prevalence, they have the sway to introduce things that cannot meaningfully be avoided without extreme siloing.
> What are the other majorly missing features Chrome pushes that other browsers don't have that most sites require?
This is a different question, please don't move the goalposts.
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Do you actually think the majority of everyone else is being just as pedantic (or cares) about Google Chrome vs chromium-based?
For most, for the purposes of market share (the type of "monopoly" I believe they are referring to), I think they count it as one and the same.
Do most people call Microsoft Edge or Safari "Chrome"?
Are the security and privacy implications the same for Edge, Safari, and Chrome?
Seems to me like they're still quite different products despite having some similar codebases!
Safari isn't based on Chromium.
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