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All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding | by Dan Fabulich | Apr, 2025 (danfabulich.medium.com)

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I know this sounds bad, but maybe this is a blessing in disguise. Necessity is the mother of invention and maybe browser technology should be funded by governments instead of privately owned advertising megacorps?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 15 hours ago

Monopolies are bad enough by themselves. But with google they own such a large part of the day to day web browsing experience it's amazing it's not worse than it already is.

YouTube has documented cases of effectively throttling non-chrome browsers.
There is a lot of juicy user behaviour data that can be gathered directly from chrome to support Google's AD network.
Google bank roll a lot of the web technologies that run websites, giving chrome an edge to implement new tech earlier and better than the competition.
They also own Android, and unlike windows, they don't even give you a pop up in what browser you want to use.
They also don't only control Chrome, but they are giving out the chromium (the web engine under the hood). So now they effectively control Brave, Edge, Opera, and any other browser that runs on chromium. And wouldn't you know it, they heavily nerfed ad blockers capabilities in chromium to increase Googles ad revenue.