And yes, I am getting "login with google" modal on half of the websites I visit even though I don't even have a google account, don't use chrome, and don't want touch anything google.
Edge, even with it's Chromium engine, fixes all that by offering Microsoft's ecosystem.
So yes, changing to Edge does change a lot. And Google will fight to keep Chrome's lead, 100%.
They have to devote developer hours to removing Google-advantaging features instead of adding their own custom goodies.
And even if said goodies take off, they're going to have a hard time getting them merged back to "root Blink" and into the rest of the browser ecosystem.
Yeah that's why I like using it
A business monopoly is bad, but a technological monopoly is often just a standard.
Nobody gets upset because every OS under the sun uses OpenSSH rather than competing with their own implementation.
In contrast, Apple competing with USB with their own connectivity standard has a negative impact on basically everyone.
Spin the Chromium project off of being in direct control by Google and into an industry organization and I’d be happy to settle on one browser engine.
Heck, if my iPhone got to use Chromium it would be an improvement.
All the proprietary corporate stuff on top of Chromium isn’t part of the open source project, anyway.
Sure. To use, participate in, and build upon this "open standard", you (or your team) just have to keep up with some of the most well-paid (presumably for a reason) programmers in the world, and then hope they see Chromium as an open standard worthy of pull requests as well.
It's not unthinkable for a browser project to work the same way.
Sorry about the autocorrect error. It's too late to change it
> In contrast, Apple competing with USB with their own connectivity standard has a negative impact on basically everyone.
Does it? I haven't ever been negatively affected or even affected at all as far as I can tell, I happen not to use Apple products or interact with the Apple ecosystem much.
What would these effects be?
"My phone's dead, can I borrow your charger?"
"Sorry, I have an iPhone."
That's a different interface, not just a separate implementation
- It has vertical tab support out of the box (is this even possible in chrome? I know Firefox can do it with extensions) - it has very flexible support for automatically sleeping and closing unused tabs. I sleep tabs after an hour except for a couple sites I’ve whitelisted.
Both of these are features other browsers either don’t have or require opening up a potential security whole to a 3rd party through extensions.
Sideberry has every feature of TST I ever used (and a few more), and is reasonably fast.
So far it has been a superior experience to vanilla chrome, and at least in Linux I haven't seen any "adcrap". I installed Ublock Origin and everything is pretty neat.
Vivaldi browser[1] has supported native vertical tabs for many years (possibly since its introduction in 2015), though sadly it doesn't get as much coverage in the media or in discussions. Made by the original Opera founder who left that company in ~2010.
It's bundled with the Sign in with Google SDK but defaults to off.
I found it fucking creepy that random websites would say "Hi Symbiote, log in with Google" with my real name.
If you press the "X" button (_not_ just click off the popup) it will use an exponential backoff on your device.
You can't trust Edge not to edit what you see. That's hard trust to win back.
But also, Blink dominance is bad, and edge does nothing in that regard.
Edge may be good for Microsoft, because it allows them to siphon off even more user data and (apparently) inject more ads, but it surely doesn't do anything to help the browser ecosystem.
MS has become just another cloud company nowadays. Not much to differentiate them.
I'm sure it doesn't do anywhere near as much as it would if Edge had its own browser engine or JavaScript engine, but surely it does something to have a competitor who has the resources to maintain a fork if they need to?
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https://www.howtogeek.com/735152/how-to-turn-off-the-sign-in...
But, you can just add this to your filters or your own list
accounts.google.com$domain=~google.*|~youtube.com|~gmail.com> Competition and diversity of browsers is good
Someone doesn't remember the early days of Internet Explorer