#Google starts to lock out non-official Chrome builds like #Chromium. The #web is a cricual infrastructure these days and as such we need independent browsers and rendering engines!
If you care about the free and open web you shouldn't use Chrome based browsers.
Thread with more details: https://twitter.com/spotfoss/status/1351624743510827015
@bjoern If the "Web" is a crucial infrastructure, maybe then we should have a look into how to generally deal with this. Falling back from using Google-backed #Chromium browsers to using Google-funded #Firefox seems a rather bad choice, and though there are some promising alternatives outside that, none of them right now are on par with either Chrome or Firefox. 😟
@JohanEmpa Let's see what happens, but I'm unsure whether (looking at Google) it's good to risk having another for-profit company our only "hope"... 😉 Maybe it would need more public engagement here, also in terms of FLOSS community and money. 😀
But I keep using it nevertheless....
@erm67 Actually at the moment I kind of fell back to startpage.com because as well here the amount of relevant results was not satisfying. 😟
@z428 @erm67 @bjoern
I feel that Startpage isn't even trying to do things better, they're fine with just doing their thing - being a meta search engine fully dependent on Google. No ambition, boring.
Qwant on the other hand try to build a real search engine by crawling the web. They have a vision of a healthy European eco-system.
"Based and designed in Europe" - that's the spirit we need.
@JohanEmpa @z428 @bjoern I certainly think that if they are actually concerned about the deteriating browser divirsity, they should kick me some money for "Haphaestus". I haven't heard back...
@JohanEmpa I'd hope for that, but I'm not really sure there's any European activity in this field. At least, there hasn't been any visible progress the last couple of years, and the issue itself isn't new. 😟
@bjoern