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Supposedly today we have a lot of browsers to choose from - Google Chrome, Safari, Microsoft Edge, Firefox, Brave, Opera, Vivaldi, etc. Having choices is a good thing, right? Nobody wants to relive the time of almost complete Internet Explorer domination again. Unfortunately our choices are significantly fewer than they seem to be at first glance, as Chrome and Safari (thanks to the iPhone) totally dominate the browser landscape in terms of usage and almost all browsers these days are built on top of Chromium, Chrome’s open-source version. Funny enough even Edge is built on top of Chromium today, despite the bitter rivalry between Google and Microsoft. What’s also funny is that Chrome and Safari control about 85% of the browser market share today, and Microsoft’s Edge commands only about 4%:
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Why did you frown at ‘user’?
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Users have every right in the world to be developers and to use whatever they like. But they have even more right that their privacy, security and is not treated as merchandise, trafficking with their private data.
No one can control what these Advertising Companies do with your data, or that they don’t sell it to others. It is not the first and last time that hundreds of thousands of sensitive user data, including banking and medical data, have been leaked.
While the phrase ‘Your privacy is very important to us’ with which the PP of Google, Facebook and also of Mozilla begins is only understandable ironically when you’r reading the rest, there is no free internet and neither for the devs.
https://www.bansurveillanceadvertising.com
https://consumerfed.org/consumer_info/factsheet-surveillance-advertising-what-is-it/
https://www.businessinsider.com/big-tech-private-data-facebook-google-apple-europe-eu-2021-1
https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/364840/duckduckgo-vivaldi-others-call-for-ban-on-surve.html *
https://www.forbrukerradet.no/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/20210622-final-report-time-to-ban-surveillance-based-advertising.pdf
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