Google’s Plan To DRM The Web Goes Against Everything Google Once Stood For
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You should use Firefox (or a fork of it), but can we expect them to be an option if Google's actions make it so most sites only work on Chrome?
Google can't make websites update.
Websites will only update to Chrome specific things if Chrome is the dominant browser.
How do you stop Chrome being the dominant browser? By not using it.
It's not going to be that simple. CDNs like Cloudflare are already on board with this, and Safari built a similar feature last year (and virtually no one noticed or cared). This horse has already left the barn and I'm not sure there's anything we can do at this point.
EDIT - Oh and I didn't think of this but Google absolutely CAN make websites update. "We'll improve your SEO ranking if you support this new feature". They've done this before and they'll do it again.
Best case might be if we could get EU to ban it.
Google can make websites that use its advertising platform support attestation. I wouldn't be surprised if that's their plan.
Unfortunately Chrome is the dominant browser by a long way.
I use Firefox on every PC and device and wish it was more popular but the non geeks don't understand so use Chrome.
Exactly. We need more people to move away from it.
I typically lead by example and will tell anyone who listens about how good modern Firefox is.
I use Firefox via the forks LibreWolf (desktop) and Fennec (Android).
My hope is for Gemini browsers to get popular (Gemini is not a web browser, the "sites" are just text and links).
They can make sites to not work on Chrome, not the other way around. Unless you implemented some chrome only features in your site then that's on you.
I expect businesses to impliment Chrome-only features in their sites..
I recall Edge became Chrome based due in part to Google making needless changes on their own sites (e.g. Youtube) whjch broke functionity in Edge.