Genuinely feeling like we need to organise an anti-Chrome movement in the same way we needed an anti-Internet Explorer movement a decade ago, the difference I guess being that Microsoft eventually joined the movement to kill it, whereas Google are unlikely to
Chrome is almost as dominant now (north of 60%) as Internet Explorer was during the second browser war
Unlike Internet Explorer, which did much of its damage by becoming the market leader and stagnating, the team behind Chrome is taking steps to actively sabotage user safety features and the standards upon which the open web is based
There are at least a couple of attempts to combat this but they're very basic
Anyway tl;dr for the health of the web please stop using Chrome and its derivatives1; use Firefox or Safari, or consider other non-Chrome-based alternatives like iCab. Google do not deserve to be entrusted with this much influence in this post-Don't Be Evil era
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Yes, that includes Brave, Edge, Vivaldi, Opera, etc.; they all use Chrome's rendering engine and will almost certainly follow Google's lead on technical implementation and engine features. And that's on top of Brave being founded by one of the worst people in tech, and Opera being pretty much as bad these days.
