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>>jakobd+(OP)
Are you using Chrome now? Hate to say it, you are part of the problem. Switch to anything else.

I'm not a super anti-Google person. I use Gmail and Google as my search engine. But Firefox is a good browser that I use as my daily driver, and Edge, Brave, Safari and the DDG browser are other options.

Switch today and start taking away Google's leverage.

>>nl+Jo
Edge and Brave are based on Chromium. While Brave would likely block this API for a while (until too many sites require it and it would hurt their market share) they don't block most changes that Google pushes into Chrome so are still largely contributing to Google's power over the Internet.

So if you really want to disrupt Google's control over the web platform the only options are really Firefox and Safari.

>>kevinc+6q
See I thought about this.

Google's issue if the leverage they have by having Chome used. If it is just a derivative then that lessens their leverage because the vendors of those derivative browsers do have the option of modifying Google's choices.

But if you disagree, then yes, sure: use Firefox.

>>nl+Ct
I agree that it lessens their control to use a derivative but it is still some control. I agree that these are far better than Chrome, but still less of an impact than a fully independent browser.

>>kevinc+5v
I think on HN there are too many people who don't switch because they are letting "perfect" be the goal rather than "improvement".