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  • enkers@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    Asides from the kinda-shady crypto stuff and the other things that’ve already been mentioned, just philosophically it should be kinda evident that over-concentration on one corporate controlled rendering engine isn’t a good thing. Google wants the internet to be a walled garden with themselves as the sole decision makers so they can stuff ads down your throat.

    Gecko’s web compat is bad largely because of this over-concentration.

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      22 hours ago

      just philosophically it should be kinda evident that over-concentration on one corporate controlled rendering engine isn’t a good thing

      Totally with you on that point.

      However, I feel now that Gecko has already lost. I was a long-time FF and later Librewolf user, but Websites don’t care to support FF as much, so I’d have important sites break. I’d have to have a Chromium-based backup anyway.

      So I’ve now given up on that from. I have no real choice but to use Blink in some capacity.