bitofhope@awful.systems to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 8 months agoThe company behind Opera browser also runs a loan shark operationwww.spacebar.newsexternal-linkmessage-square26fedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down10file-textcross-posted to: technology@beehaw.org
arrow-up15arrow-down1external-linkThe company behind Opera browser also runs a loan shark operationwww.spacebar.newsbitofhope@awful.systems to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 8 months agomessage-square26fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: technology@beehaw.org
minus-squareTrickDacy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·8 months agoExcept that it uses chromium which contributes to the Google dominance of web standards
minus-squareSurpriZe@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·8 months agoBut do they have to follow what Google is doing? Can’t they have full control over their own chromium version?
minus-squareTrickDacy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 months agoNot really, chromium is mostly maintained by Google. They could fork it but that wouldn’t solve what I’m concerned about here
Except that it uses chromium which contributes to the Google dominance of web standards
But do they have to follow what Google is doing? Can’t they have full control over their own chromium version?
Not really, chromium is mostly maintained by Google. They could fork it but that wouldn’t solve what I’m concerned about here