cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/48969583
Google…
🔸required Android makers to pre-install Search & Chrome for Play Store access
🔸paid manufacturers exclusively
🔸blocked other Android versions
Less competition = fewer choices for users.
At Murena, we propose a full ecosystem without vendor lock-in. Your data, your choice.
👉 Read the full article by BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgj0pp5p62o?app-referrer=deep-link
Thank you for being corrective about the WebKit thing.
I wish media and others would be more accurate when talking about browsers. All these “Chrome-based” browsers are not “based” on Chrome at all, they are just using Blink, the rendering engine, which Chrome/Chromium also uses. And Blink itself is based on/forked from WebKit, funny enough.
I don’t get all the fuss about browsers. google and apple are really just trying to make sure everyone is using a KHTML based browser, out of the goodness of their heart, so it is good for everyone. KHTML is good. don’t fight against it.
Any particular reason why it’s “good for everyone”, or it just is?
Diversity and non-monopoly is good.
/s
if it was just the rendering engine and not the entire base browser, removal of the APIs from chrome needed for ublock origin wouldn’t be that big of a deal.
You right you right 👍