Open source software is supposed to have a built-in safety net, forking. The issue is that people are most often overly reluctant to actually fork projects when they go to shit (especially if they do so by boiling the frog method), or if it gets forked, they rarely really move to the newer forked project and instead keep putting up with the evil old version.
No the issue with forking specifically in this instance is google has almost literally half the planet using chrome, over 3 billion users. Forks, Firefox, other browsers, none of them matter. What google does will be the standard, period. Everything else is a minority to be crushed under the ad-laden boot of google.
The open web was given a terminal diagnosis the second an ad company got control of the browser market, this is just it finally dying. We can’t protest it, we can’t switch to another internet like we switched to another site for reddit, it’s over. We lost.
Open source software is supposed to have a built-in safety net, forking. The issue is that people are most often overly reluctant to actually fork projects when they go to shit (especially if they do so by boiling the frog method), or if it gets forked, they rarely really move to the newer forked project and instead keep putting up with the evil old version.
No the issue with forking specifically in this instance is google has almost literally half the planet using chrome, over 3 billion users. Forks, Firefox, other browsers, none of them matter. What google does will be the standard, period. Everything else is a minority to be crushed under the ad-laden boot of google.
The open web was given a terminal diagnosis the second an ad company got control of the browser market, this is just it finally dying. We can’t protest it, we can’t switch to another internet like we switched to another site for reddit, it’s over. We lost.
While I can see your level of cynicism on my own horizon, I’m just not there yet.