• roofuskit@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I kind of assumed you would reply with a lack of understanding of the resources it takes to maintain those engines and keep them complaint with web standards.

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        It’s still a problem. I didnt say we had other options right now. But pretending it’s not a problem isn’t going to fix it. Do you really want to rely on those companies for your browser engines? Mozilla is at least an alternative to Google, but a tenuous one. And Microsoft taking over development of either of those isn’t an improvement.

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        it’s highly unlikely that they will just stop

        It’s like you never heard of Google and their practices.

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            Microsoft (for example) will take over

            If that happen, they fail dramatically, because they already demonstrated how good are they at making a browser, so good they threw away everything the second chromium got on their horizon. And since maintaining other people’s convoluted bullshit is more complicated than your own, their chances will be even lower.