Comment by AegirLeet

6 hours ago

The real hegemony is the Blink hegemony. Google (an advertising company) can pretty much unilaterally dictate web standards. A terrible state of affairs for the web. That's the real issue and using another Chrome reskin is never going to fix it.

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_verandaguy  1 hour ago

This is the main reason I stay away from Vivaldi; using Firefox is, for all of Mozilla's borderline comical mismanagement, a protest vote against Blink (and previously, Chromium).

  • swed420  1 hour ago

    Firefox is controlled opposition practically owned by Google. Follow the money.

    Ladybird seems to be the only hope, once available.

    • buran77  35 minutes ago

      > Firefox is controlled opposition practically owned by Google

      And how does that "ownership" look like in practice? Has Google ever decided how things should be done "or else"? What Google does is pay a protection tax. Without Firefox around and independent, the EU is almost sure to break Chrome away from Google, especially with the warm EU-US relations now. So Google pays and is going to pay as much as it takes to keep Firefox alive, kicking, and doing whatever it wants.

      Google Chrome needs Firefox to be moderately successful more than Firefox needs that money. Or else it might become someone else's Chrome.

      > Follow the money

      Everyone has this revelation once. If it was that easy then customers would practically own the company providing them the services. Do you and your fellow paying customers feel like you own any company, especially big-tech? Do you all control Netflix? Amazon? Apple?

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    • andai  33 minutes ago

      I heard Mozilla described as "Google's antitrust lawsuit insurance."

      That doesn't really seem relevant these days though. Although I guess duopolies are totally fine.

  • NoGravitas  33 minutes ago

    Vivaldi is almost certainly the best Blink browser, and I'd certainly use it if only Blink browsers were viable. As long as that's not the case, I am, like you, using something based on Firefox; in my case, Zen.