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Nonsense video, underlying problem is monopolies and private companies who develop the standards, not what browser you use.
If the standards are fully open, transparent and not concerning then it would make no difference if you use chrome and firefox because everyone would use same basis.
Also chromium team is not purchased or owned by Google, most volunteers are normal people, developers or security researchers that code on it in their free time. You can fork, modify the source as you please but that does not change the argumentation about web standards and how build or control them.
Here is what people could do
My opinion on the submission and Tech + Web, not meant to offend but my little review on this.
It’s the other way around. Which browser you use is what directly determines whether monopoly and private companies develop the standard you use.
No it is not, this is a myth. As you also can use free software on closed OS, which happens to be the standard. Keyword Microsoft and Windows. You also can choose to not support this, it is you and not the monopoly. If there is no alternative that is usable, people continue to use what they got. It is the underlying problem, Firefox is so bad and so unusable by default, so people switch or use something else. Nothing to do with Monopoly. The standards itself are created and dictated by monopolies, so it plays no role what you use if it anyway ends up that you must support such standards.
You could write a standard independently of those companies, but then if everyone chooses to use browser engines from companies that don’t follow it, what’s the point?
The point is that user generated or govt establish frameworks can b used as basis.Its useless if you build a browser surrounded by standards created by Microsoft, IBM etc alone.
If everyone uses a particular browser then whatever that browser implements becomes the standard. It’s all about what browser you use.
This is already the case, you can choose not to use FLoC. Nothing changes here.
If what you want is everyone using the same basis, then what you need is to get everyone to use the same browser engine (which is what is happening already).
Please learn the difference between Browser engine and web standards, nonsense you talk here. Your Browser engine can adopt, implement or reject standards. Irrelevant in dyding discussion anyway since you provide absolute no solutions yourself in the discussion here, like everyone else people feeding off my ideas, practical in every thread. That you cannot continue is clear, web gives a shit about Mozilla, clearly the case. Some people hold together by hopes and delusions do not represent the web. Never did.
The discussion here is not about Browser you use, as people use whatever works best for them, and not what implements xyz, this is clearly shown in practical every thread. So enforcing your ideas will not work for the mass, better way around is to create open frameworks, documents that are actually usable and directly easily reviewable because at the end of the day your Browser runs pretty much on Android and iOS and not a open system. There exist open alternatives but they are not well funded, future unclear and the web - the main user - does not use it, they trust big corpos, they rely on their eco-system. Like Mozilla relies on money from yahoo, google etc in the past. Corpos you shit-talk.
Are there plans to support BAT for donations, I already asked in chat but got no answer. I would like to use BAT because the system is trusted, and I can contribute monthly very easily trough my Browser.
Right now the domain is not verified, so I am asking in the hope to see more people auto-contributing.
THX for your answer.
It was made by a free speech company that supported neo-nazis and white supremacists. They also wanted to replace the coin system.
In April 2019, Dissenter was removed from the Firefox Add-ons website and the Chrome Web Store for violation of their policies that causes the creation of the Dissenter web browser.
Brave never threatened anyone.
They created their Privacy Badger extension + spread their DnT philosophy, regardless if it is helpful or not.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/03/one-answer-facebook-problem-block-its-tracking-technologies
Talked a lot about the leak
Direct response
I think they responded a lot to Facebook, the entire scandal and started some campaigns to sue Zuck and co.
Getting a new waifu.
I find such accusations without anything behind pretty harsh.
EFF is not a transparent organization....
but what they are supposed to be is an activist organisation to fight for privacy, not some political analyst on a TV show....
Eff has some campaigns running and did so in the past. Campaign that people paid for and they were pretty transparent because they report about all won and lost battles. They have social media, you can ask and contact them over there too. Not sure what your definition of transparent is.
Can we go back to topic, I think the Cambridge thing is already over and Facebook had his worst year in 2021. I do not like hijacking threads like this. I also do not like to smear someones entire reputation based on one or two things some people did, this is not how things should be handled. Name someone without any flaws, that would be real news and a big bummer. If you dig for dirt you always find some, on every side.
I do not backup EFF on every move they do or did, it also was only an example on who you can support with eg donations.
Now tell me what campaigns you running as private person ... oh whoops none... Full circle.
Why, even FOSS needs support. See OBS Studio, Wikipedia etc. Without supports good projects go to waste.
We are not talking about MS who introduce ads in Explorer which need some ad-blocking, hosts or registry hacks. Linux is more transparent and there will be options to control this.
Do I like it, nope. But it is better than alternatives to shutdown project because lack of funding or struggling to expand because only few people are willingly to donate.
Please give...
... never a voice on Lemmy.
Such people and groups abuse platforms to win new people for their purposes or to confuse, lie and deceive others.
Thanks for reaction so fast in this case btw.