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by AlexandrB 806 days ago
I use Mac Safari exclusively except for a few sites (usually Google's products) that run terribly on it. There's nothing "iPad and iPhone" level about desktop Safari. It also happens to be much easier on the batteries than the Chrome resource hog.

> When the browser is user-friendly, Google makes money.

Nope, not at all. Google makes money when users view ads. As long as they have competition, they can't go hog wild with it but changes like those in manifest V3[1] show that ad blocking is their natural enemy - regardless of what users want.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/11/google-chrome-will-l...