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Posted: 2022-12-20 (UTC+00:00)

Updated: 2022-12-20 (UTC+00:00)

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Table of Contents

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Table of Contents

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Introduction

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Introduction

It's no secret that I'm an advocate of Chromium and will use it for the foreseeable future. It is a highly secure web browser which provides strong protection against malicious wesbites and the code they run, and, while I am not too interested in high performance, it is a very performant web @@ -52,16 +47,14 @@

However, the intention of this blog post is not to promote Chromium for any reason, but rather show an issue with it; an issue which is larger than may be realised by web-surfing users. That issue is the large monopoly Chromium has in the web browser market; - Chromium's market share is around 65%, + Chromium's market share is around 65%, making it the largest slice of the cake. The issue becomes even deeper and more problematic when you realise that the second-place web browser, Safari, has only an 18% market share.

The main issue with this type of monopoly is the large amounts of power and influence it gives Chromium, which can lead to, and is leading to, excessive authority of how the web should work, and the standards which are implemented, which all other web browsers must comply with in order to have a fully working web.

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Solution

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Solution

In order to combat the Chromium monopoly, users typically go over to Chromium's classical rival, Firefox. However, Firefox is dying and has lost almost all of its userbase over the last 2-3 years; the reason for this is a tale of selfishness and greed, caused by Firefox's parent company to go off @@ -88,8 +81,7 @@ supporting the second-place alternative is, in order to keep the one you don't want out of power, giving the party you do want in power an advantage. To win this war against the Chromium monopoly, we must be tactical, not emotional.

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Conclusion

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Conclusion

Supporting Safari is the first step in supporting WebKit and promoting usage of the independent web engine. Buying time while supporting and contributing to WebKit browser projects is the best and only chance anyone has at competing with Chromium, and preventing it from increasing its dominance