Open source group aims to better organize and fund development of browser.
  • ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social
    103·
    1 month ago

    This is surely a smokescreen for Google’s monopolization of Internet standards.

    And even if weren’t, I cannot emphasize enough how much that list of companies should also NOT be in charge of setting open standards. Oligopoly, monopoly with the illusion of choice…

    • fin@sh.itjust.worksOP
      33·
      1 month ago

      I want Chrome to be sold, honestly.

      I still don’t get why Linux Foundation helped Google out of that.

      • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
        25·
        1 month ago

        I still don’t get why Linux Foundation helped Google out of that.

        I could be wrong, but I think that (at least to some extent) the Linux Foundation exists to be the more corporate-friendly face of Free Software Open Source, as a reaction against/in opposition to the hard-line “end-user freedom” stance taken by GNU/the FSF. If that’s accurate, it doesn’t surprise me that it would take a soft position regarding Google’s monopolistic practices. Especially since Google is a gold member of it.

        • z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml
          8·
          1 month ago

          Aren’t a good portion of contributors to the Linux kernel also employees of the major FAANG companies?

    • cerement@slrpnk.net
      10·
      1 month ago

      there’s a whole world of alternative, small, or minimalist non-Chromium non-Firefox browsers out there I would love to try out – but in today’s world, if it doesn’t support at least the full un-crippled version of uBlock Origin, it’s a complete non-starter

      (considering general trends, I’m just gonna have to sit down and setup PiHole aren’t I?)

      • PushButton@lemmy.world
        4·
        1 month ago

        With Lynx, there’s even no need for plugins!

        In all honesty, you should try it. Configure it adequately, and really trying it.

        If people could respect the web standards and all have a text based version (aka working on Lynx), the web would be a better place for everyone - especially the impaired ones (blinds for example).

        I would trash all the JavaScript in the world to have a functional text based web any day.

      • yonder@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        1 month ago

        I find the ad blocking in Gnome Web to be sufficient. The biggest thing that is holding it back in my opinion is a lack of features like extentions and FIDO support and moderate performance.

      • echo@lemmy.ml
        2·
        30 days ago

        More accurately, It uses WebkitGTK, which is a fork of Webkit. Blink, the engine Chromium and Chromium based browsers use, is also a fork of Webkit.