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.
i don't think the anti-IE movement would've worked if IE wasn't also just the worst browser engine in the scene. so there might be hope for an anti-Safari movement, but i wouldn't hold my breath for anti-Chrome.
also, if you want to be able to read things over NFC without creating and maintaining an entire native app for each OS, there's a standard for that, but Chrome is the only engine that supports it, because both Firefox and Safari have said "we hate this standard, we're never implementing it, fuck you". and if Firefox isn't and doesn't want to be unqualifiedly better, i don't think the moral argument for switching is going to get all that far.
