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shevy-javatoday at 9:23 AM1 replyview on HN

The biggest bug still has not been fixed here, which is:

Google.

We really need an alternative to this greedy and evil corporations de-facto controlling a huge portion of the modern www stack. All decision-making processes are here subjugated to what fits Google's adEmpire. This is a perpetual system of control amplifying abusive systems in place. We already see this with the recent age sniffing; Google just yesterday announced that all android users must hand over their age to everyone else. Before that google kicked out or locked out open source alternatives to android (or, at the least, made their life significantly harder than before). These are not isolated ways of abuse - this is systematic abuse.

We really need alternatives to Google here. It can not be that one tyrant company dictates so much of people's open lives (and no, Firefox is no alternative; Mozilla is basically a nerfed and bribed entity that has given up on firefox many years ago already; ladybird may become an alternative at one point in time, but right now is not and there are questions over how Kling handles the overall project, but these complaints are significantly below what Google is doing globally here).

Fixing more bugs in the adChromium code base does not change the underlying problem at hand.


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Cthulhu_today at 9:41 AM

> We really need an alternative to this greedy and evil corporations de-facto controlling a huge portion of the modern www stack.

We do / have? Multiple even. Of course, the vast majority of consumers doesn't care so they don't get as much traction.