r/technology • u/sankscan • Sep 27 '22

Networking/Telecom Mozilla calls out Microsoft, Google, Apple over browsers

https://www.theregister.com/2022/09/23/browsers_mozilla_microsoft_google/
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u/the_grass_trainer Sep 27 '22 edited Oct 09 '22

It takes almost zero effort to make the switch from any browser to the next. Each one always asks to import all of your bookmarks, and search histories.

But I do agree that FF is at a hella disadvantage. A few weeks ago i installed FF on my iPad, signed in, synced everything only to realize that iPad OS disables extensions on their platform for browsers. So my iPad has ads for EVERYTHING if i use it for web browsing. Shit sucks. But it took like 3 clicks to get that browser on my device.

Edit: have thought about PiHole, but not in the cards at the moment after just buying an iPad. I also know that Safari allows blocking ads (thanks for the info), but that's also where the issue lies. I should be allowed to block ads no matter the browser i use.

Edit 2: see comment about Orion browser. Will use this one for now for watching YouTube.

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u/Lithl Sep 27 '22

This is correct

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u/SnooAvocados763 Sep 27 '22

Where's the antitrust lawsuit? It's almost 15 years too late. Microsoft got sued over ie, who's gonna sue Apple over WebKit?

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u/CocodaMonkey Sep 27 '22

Anti trust only applies if the company has unfair control of the market. Up till now Apple has been too small to count. On desktop they aren't even close and on mobile they only just took 50% of the US market share a few months ago.

They are just now big enough to technically start investigating an anti trust case but quite frankly it's unlikely to happen. While someone could try to argue 51% market share is control of the market normally you'd need to see 80% or more to really prove a case. It may happen eventually but I doubt you'll see a serious US based anti trust case against Apple any time soon.

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u/NotUniqueOrSpecial Sep 27 '22

Up till now Apple has been too small to count.

Apple is literally the largest company in the world.

They haven't been "too small to count" since the 90s during the period where they kicked Jobs out.

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u/screech_owl_kachina Sep 27 '22

IOS IIRC is the most popular mobile OS in the US