Comments by "Winnetou17" (@Winnetou17) on "The web needs Chrome. This is bad." video.

  1.  @snowe..  Couldn't agree more that Firefox will still continue without Google's money too. Because a lot of that money is wasted on some type of people and useless projects (I'll let the read guess of which kind). Who knows, without Google's money, maybe Mozilla will get rid of those people and have a chance of getting relevant again when it has only engineers and ACTUAL free speech activits. Which might get them more funding in the future, if people see that their money isn't wasted anymore. And/or if they make a separate place/location/category to donate directly to the Firefox and Thunderbird devs, I'm sure it will actually attract enough funding to maintain the current level they have.
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  2. I do agree that what DoJ proposes is an overreach. And I think it's why it will not pass/continue. However, I totally disagree that it will kill the web or anything remotely close to that. There's plenty of innovation done outside Google. If Chrome disappears today, sites and products won't break, as Chromium can serve them with absolutely no issues. If Chrome disappears today, we won't be stuck in the current version of the web, it will continue to be improved. Maybe slower, but we'll be absolutely fine. I hate this type of argument so much. That if we don't sell our soul to the devil (figuratively) then we won't be able to do anything. Ok, maybe 10 or 15 years ago it might've been closer to the truth, but even then I don't agree that we wouldn't have have the benefits of the modern day browsers without Chrome. It would've taken longer most likely. But nobody would've died because of that. But it's even less of a concern now, with thousands of non-google engineers contributing to web standards and browser code. I wouold also not discount Firefox so quickly. It's true that most of Mozilla's revenue comes from Google, but a lot of the revenue is wasted on useless projects (usually DEI stuff) and on the woke staff itself that managed to get the leadership. Firefox developers don't get a lot of cash. Not getting the money from Google might actually be better for Mozilla and Firefox, as it might be freed from the woke management and steered back into competence and relevancy by engineers and ACTUAL free speech activists. And if they make a dedicated Firefox-devs only donation category, I'm sure that there will be people chiming in (myself included), enough to at least keep the current funding the developers get.
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  3.  @igoralmeida9136  Or instead of going bankrupt, they might boot off the woke management which are wasting a lot of that Google's money into useless projects (usually DEI) and have the revenue go to the devs. Which might make them get even more revenue later, if people see that they're no longer wasted on propaganda.
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  4. Agreed
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