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[–] AProfessional@lemmy.world 114 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They don’t care about Firefox. Chrome is the browser market, they have weakened extensions, they implemented DRM, and here we are.

[–] Fester@lemm.ee 142 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Coming to you later… “Your browser violates YouTube’s Terms of Service.”

[–] 1stTime4MeInMCU@mander.xyz 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This would become an Anti trust suit I would imagine.

[–] Sami@lemmy.zip 73 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

They can just phrase it a little differently and argue semantics in front of a bunch of 70 year olds who don't know what a browser is in a hearing or two. Maybe a couple campaign contributions through completely legal channels and that's that. Anti trust enforcement has been falling in the US for decades.

[–] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am cautiously optimistic of that new gal heading the FTC, she's preparing suits I to Amazon and Google, so we'll see how that goes

[–] callyral@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You could use an extension that changes your user agent but I'm not sure how well that'd work

[–] danielton@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They have control of Chrome, so they could always implement some kind of API into Chrome to check.

[–] ramjambamalam@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

C-C-C-C-Conflict of interest!

[–] danielton@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Everybody thought this was OK because Chromium is open-source.

[–] ramjambamalam@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And that may help if a group of developers decide to fork it in their own direction.

[–] danielton@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Sure, but most people will still use Google Chrome, and good luck getting Microsoft and Opera to switch to the fork. Google will still have full control over Chrome, and the layperson won't understand why a browser that looks the same as Chrome but doesn't work with Google's sites is better.

That's the issue.

[–] intelati@programming.dev 8 points 1 year ago

Laughs in useragent switch

[–] DrQuint@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They're TRYING, but for now, it would be a user agent extension matter.