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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


  1. 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.



the writing seems to be on the wall for iOS only allowing WebKit-based browser rendering, with both Google and Mozilla publicly committing work on iOS versions of their respective engines

I would not be at all surprised if they have some NDA'd info about this from Apple about a policy change scheduled for later this year, where Apple want to be able to show off the other browsers on stage or something, so the work starts now

on one hand it's good that they're seemingly going to be dropping the de facto monopoly, browsers are broadly healthier when there are more of them

but on the other hand it feels like this rule was perhaps the last thing holding back a bunch of mobile web sites just saying "please use Chrome instead of your yucky choice of browser" just as so many desktop sites do already 🙃