Karna to Open Source@lemmy.ml • 6 months agoLadybird Browser Gains Cloudflare Support to Challenge the Status Quolinuxiac.comexternal-linkmessage-square84fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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minus-square☂️-linkfedilink0•6 months agoi compared it to firefox, saying sucking up to oligarchies for money gets you tied up with them and prevents you from challenging them. no use in challenging “the browser market” when you are getting funded by the very same actors keeping it the way it is.
minus-squareAlaknárlinkfedilinkEnglish0•6 months agoAgain: what does Cloudflare have to do with the browser market…?
minus-square☂️-linkfedilink0•6 months agothey monopolize the internet infratructure. they can very well be the ones enforcing mainstream browsers. and they do. they challenge firefox users much more when they have adblockers on and such. they have the capability to do more.
minus-squareAlaknárlinkfedilinkEnglish0•6 months ago they have the capability to do more. And you don’t think that financing a third party browser to break the duopoly is “doing more”?
minus-square☂️-linkfedilink0•edit-26 months agothe duopoly that reigns the internet is google and cloudflare. this changes nothing.
minus-squareAlaknárlinkfedilinkEnglish0•6 months agoThis is like saying “the duopoly that reigns the water is Maersk and Smartwater”, two companies that do completely different things that just happen to be related to water…
i compared it to firefox, saying sucking up to oligarchies for money gets you tied up with them and prevents you from challenging them.
no use in challenging “the browser market” when you are getting funded by the very same actors keeping it the way it is.
Again: what does Cloudflare have to do with the browser market…?
they monopolize the internet infratructure. they can very well be the ones enforcing mainstream browsers.
and they do. they challenge firefox users much more when they have adblockers on and such. they have the capability to do more.
And you don’t think that financing a third party browser to break the duopoly is “doing more”?
the duopoly that reigns the internet is google and cloudflare. this changes nothing.
This is like saying “the duopoly that reigns the water is Maersk and Smartwater”, two companies that do completely different things that just happen to be related to water…