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>>samwil+(OP)
I’m truly scared of Chrome.

It pushes proprietary features, from what I know it starts enforcing some analytics/ads without possibility to block it out and there are other thing too, but since I’m not really an user I don’t track them deeply.

Based on my personal experiences with IE, ActiveX, Adobe Flash and not being able to fill my taxes without Microsoft license (that was around 800$ back then for me not adjusted for inflation) I am afraid the same will happen with Chrome once it gets enough ground.

“Hey, sorry but we can’t sell you toothbrush because you’re using Safari/Firefox/Vivaldi/whatever. Please switch to Chrome and continue with your tracked and dissected purchase route.”

Is there any other anti-Chrome bastion than iOS’ Safari?

Old E2E runner installed Google Chrome on my machine (didn’t even ask but that’s user space on dev machine so whatever) which grew into my MacOS machine. It cannot run in background but there is another daemon that constantly updates it. Multiple times a day I get notification that new service has been installed to run in background.

I’m not sure if that’s something I want to fight for.

>>xlii+5h
You don't need to worry about Apple. You don't need to underestimate Apple's engineering team. It has the most well-funded and competitive engineering team on the planet and they can afford fighting for browser market share against Chrome. Safari was falling behind the competition for a while not because Chrome is a unbeatable monstrosity but Apple doesn't have to compete against it.

>>summer+rr
Whatever they'll do, company policies will only let Safari run on Apple hardware where they want developers create apps to make Apple profit from. Any improvement to Safari is less profit for the Store. However maybe the EU will really force Apple to let other browser engines run on their devices and they'll have to let go a part of the Store. We will see.

On the other side, Chrome runs on any hardware and people using Safari on their iPhone are likely to use Chrome at work or on their PCs. The competition is almost one sided and can't be won by staying inside the closed world of Macs and ìPhones, especially ìPhones because of the internal competition from native apps.