• @[email protected]
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    571 year ago

    The problems start to happen when buisnesses adopt this en masse. Expect all banks to implement this for example. You can use Firefox all you want, but then you won’t be able to do online banking.

    Standards are really fucking important to help people stay functional in a society. This is one area that the ANCAP mindset just gets it totally wrong, unless you like the idea of being a hermit.

    Anyway, we are already seeing some websites basically reject browsers like Firefox because they basically give the consumer too much protection and freedom. Arguably we’ve seen this before, but this may be a new tier of corporate lockout of open standards as consumer protection gets thrown in the trash. Thanks America.

    • deweydecibel
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      251 year ago

      This needs to be pinned at the top of every single threat about this. Far too many people are just saying “Well I’ll just keep using Firefox”. They do not understand the gravity of the issue.

    • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏
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      If my bank does this I’ll take my custom to a smaller one that doesn’t.

      I don’t think they will though, since they gave me a hardware thingy to login to my online banking from my rooted android 🫠

      • @GlitzyArmrest
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        131 year ago

        Mozilla does not exist because of Google. Google doesn’t have controlling power over Mozilla, nor do they have power over the many forks. It’s hilarious that you think a company would give a shit about being a monopoly; that’s what they strive for. This stupid take has been going around for years, and I’m sad to see it spread to Lemmy.

        • @[email protected]
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          01 year ago

          They give a shit about not being a monopoly because if they were, they’d be broken up so they’re not one anymore. At least currently still.

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        1 year ago

        Oh, you. I remember you from another thread the other week, saying how Chromium is not Chrome and that this would never happen. Hi. It is happening. Also, I remember telling you to stop moving goalposts, which is what you are doing here.

        Microsoft would be happy to pay Firefox to set Bing as default (has happened in the past already) so even your goalpost moving is moot.

        Come on, wake up.