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by jbirer 1288 days ago
I will always support Chrome over Firefox because they are not politicizing their project, they just serve you and leave the politics to politicians. They earned their market dominance for being great and supporting things that Firefox did not at the time. I am OK with monopolies of good products, I don't really care about using an inferior product for the sake of lack of monopolies.
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tristan957 1288 days ago
"Inferior" is your opinion. I believe Firefox to be superior.

Chrome is winning for a few reasons, least of which is that it is a good browser. I believe Chrome is winning because:

1. Chrome is advertised on the most popular website in the world for free. 2. Chrome is the bundled in both ChromeOS and Android. 3. Some of the most popular sites in the world are only built to work well in Chrome (Blink), ala YouTube, at least in the past. 4. Chrome is a performant web browser.

Chrome is an inherently political project. Google is using Chrome's market leader position to push what it wants on the Web, whether that is standards, Manifest v3, removal of third part cookies, etc. Mozilla is honest about the politicization which mainly revolves around an open Web and freedom of information. Chrome's politicization happens in the background where a normal user wouldn't see it. You seem to have fallen into this trap.

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LightHugger 1288 days ago
by default, chrome is scanning your whole computer and uploading that information to google under the guise of chrome now being an antivirus too (hilarious excuse). enjoy!
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nske 1288 days ago
I think they mostly earned their market dominance by aggressive marketing -i.e. pestering the search engine users to install Chrome, or bundling it with most Android devices. I feel that any browser that was good enough (and Firefox was) could have gained the dominant position on the market if they had the same promotion platform.
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phendrenad2 1288 days ago
How does Firefox politicizing their project affect you? It shouldn't. If you don't like the quality of the browser, just say that, otherwise YOU are the one being political.
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