Tldr: the big sites only target functionality for chrome due to market share, and if the other browsers don't want the shitty reputation, they have to do this
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Publisher targets 85% Chrome, other browsers send Chrome user agent as a workaround, Publisher now sees 95% Chrome. 🫠
The easiest solution. Fuck those companies and don't use their services!! Simple as that.
But what about essential services that you can't avoid? Online banking. Education like blackboard is horrid on Firefox. Youtube and social media are optional use, but for access to utility sites and finance are not.
That is where we are heading the longer chromium remains dominant.
Touché, valid points. I've never used blackboard, or at least not for 20ish years to my knowledge. There might be settings you can tweak to improve how Firefox handles those sites compared to Chrome.
Or idk if this will help at all.. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/blackboardplus/
It was bound to happen. Chrome has become what IE was, a defacto standard.
This has been going on for a long time in general, but Google recently stopped testing for non-chrome browsers altogether.
anti-trust?
Yes it is very obviously an anti-trust issue, but the US Government is obviously corrupt. The system serves its masters.
They'll be found guilty and will be fined 1 penny for every billion they made screwing over every person.
The perfect grift is to be too rich by the time anyone notices your illegal activities so you can just pay the regulators, legislators, police, SEC and whoever else is in the way.
The US response to Microsoft's monopoly was meager, this time, they will cheer Google on.
Looked at header image. AI.
Okay, maybe the author just doesn't respect the craft of graphics.
Chrome doesn’t add quirks; it sets the agenda.
Oh the article is AI too.
Ladybird will have an AI spaghetti code. We're cooked.
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