- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
Every day I read something that makes me feel a little more like I’m living in a cyberpunk dystopia. Today it’s the fact that Chromium is so dominant that a large number of website developers seem to ditch testing in non-Chromium browsers. This is evidenced by non-Chromium browsers, like Firefox, loading some sites differently, e.g., by pretending to be Chromium, because the website developers wrote sloppy code that only works in Chromium. So I guess, especially with the announced anti-adblock in the next Chromium iteration, the choice is to use a low performance browser that is actively hurting your privacy, or experience friction, knowing that Mozilla can’t find and carpet over all the bugs in other people’s code. For me, the answer remains Firefox and it’s forks. However, for many, I fear this will ingrain Chromium dominance deeper and deeper. Please: how is this market dominance, evidence by soft-forced hot fixes only in non-Chromium browsers, not anti-trust?
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The industry’s reliance on Chromium often forces non-Chromium browsers to spoof their User-Agent strings to bypass broken layout engines, effectively normalizing vendor lock-in under the guise of compatibility. This practice undermines true interoperability and allows site owners to implicitly fingerprint users by detecting whether they are running a genuine alternative engine or a masquerading instance.
Looked at header image. AI.
Okay, maybe the author just doesn’t respect the craft of graphics.
Chrome doesn’t add quirks; it sets the agenda.
Oh the article is AI too.
homie threw a “dont use em dashes” in the prompt
The easiest solution. Fuck those companies and don’t use their services!! Simple as that.
But what about essential services that you can’t avoid? Online banking. Education like blackboard is horrid on Firefox. Youtube and social media are optional use, but for access to utility sites and finance are not.
That is where we are heading the longer chromium remains dominant.
Touché, valid points. I’ve never used blackboard, or at least not for 20ish years to my knowledge. There might be settings you can tweak to improve how Firefox handles those sites compared to Chrome.
Or idk if this will help at all… https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/blackboardplus/
It was bound to happen. Chrome has become what IE was, a defacto standard.
I always had the IE Tab addon in Firefix so it would interpret pernicious sites.
This has been going on for a long time in general, but Google recently stopped testing for non-chrome browsers altogether.
anti-trust?
Yes it is very obviously an anti-trust issue, but the US Government is obviously corrupt. The system serves its masters.
They’ll be found guilty and will be fined 1 penny for every billion they made screwing over every person.
The perfect grift is to be too rich by the time anyone notices your illegal activities so you can just pay the regulators, legislators, police, SEC and whoever else is in the way.
The US response to Microsoft’s monopoly was meager, this time, they will cheer Google on.
Ladybird will have an AI spaghetti code. We’re cooked.
Servo has more potential anyway.
Hopefully yes
