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Jon Winston Jul 21, 2023

@ploum What do you think of Chromium browsers like Brave?

@jwinstonsf @ploum Still would not help, we need to keep firefox alive so that chromium does not become default web standard ! Then they can push any crap and we have to follow it !

@jwinstonsf @ploum @Jungekatz I think we're too late...

@cameronbosch @jwinstonsf @ploum the good thing about the world is things keep changing ! I hope they do change for the good ! Big corps are controlling our lives way too much !

@jwinstonsf @ploum @Jungekatz Our only option is to pressure politicians at this point to break up Alphabet/Google. There's nothing else we can do.

They almost broke up Microsoft in the 1990s; it's only because we let them get away with it that they didn't get broken up. We need to pressure every politician to break up big tech before this happens. Just "grinning and bearing it" by using a near dead browser that also isn't a good company is only going to drag it out.

@cameronbosch @jwinstonsf @ploum the worst part is these big corps are the ones who donate most for political campaigns and to the politicians , just to keep the power ! Reasons anti trust laws dont work or are bypassed ! The worst thing about browser situation is , so many chromium browsers exist that probably anti trust wont apply here ! Either the courts need to be smarter or we are doomed !

@jwinstonsf @ploum @Jungekatz Yep. We need to organize some sort of online or in-person protest so large it can't be ignored. Otherwise, it's going to be 1984 not in 1984.

@cameronbosch @jwinstonsf @ploum well there is a silver lining there , the govts around the world , ( EU, India , Australia) at least are realising that these mega corps are gaining too much or power and there is a clear tussle visible !! EU has been the most active one !!

@jwinstonsf @ploum @Jungekatz But the EU has been causing other problems like this: https://youtu.be/QK0rmOuzSVM?t=87

So it's too steps forward, two steps backward.

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@cameronbosch @jwinstonsf @ploum the politticos are stupid that way , hope someone tells them how foss works !

@jwinstonsf @ploum @Jungekatz Of course that happens when most of them are boomers. We need more gen x, y, & z in congress, particularly z.