• narwhal@lemmy.mlOP
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      The biggest problem is if Google can influence all the major websites (banks, e-commerce, news sites, streaming services, social media, etc) to adopt this standard.

      They’ve done it before with AMP.

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        They won’t even have to force them this time, they’ll do it voluntarily because it would mean they can serve unblockable ads, track users much better, and for banks it would actually increase security for the user (but also force you to consume their content how they want, preventing stuff like accessibility extensions).

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      Not really, since Google develops Chromium.

      FireFox receives most of their funding from Google, even though they’ve come out as opposing this plan. They have next to no market share.

      The only other browser engine that can seriously compete with Chromium is Safari.

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          Partially. The Blink browser engine used in Chromium is a fork from WebKit but it’s diverged quite a bit in some ways I believe. But there’s a lot more that goes into the project. For example, V8, the browser’s JavaScript engine.