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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/2546109

Read why "Web Environment Integrity" is terrible, and why we must vocally oppose it now. Google's latest maneuver, if we don't act to stop it, threatens our freedom to explore the Internet with browsers of our choice.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (5 children)

That's a good question. Safari market share isn't as big as Chrome's (62.55% vs 20.5%, according to statcounter), but it's still the 2nd largest. Also note that the WEI proposal appeared around May but made the news only now.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Safari's market share definitely isn't as big, that's a good point. However, it's got 100% market share on iPhones (Apple forbid other browser engines from running on iOS), so there's a lot of people that have no choice.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Really? Like you cannot use Firefox or chrome on IOS?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I have Firefox, Brave and DuckDuckGo on iOS, just no extensions, if you want an external AdBlocker you have to download an app that works at system level

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