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ELI5

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Explain it to me like I am 5. Everybody should know what this is about.

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Non-techy here, I've been seeing a lot of posts about Google DRM shenanigans, but don't really understand it, and what's 'bad' about it.

ELI5 please thank you

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

Most browsers use Chromium as the basis of how it works and these are how we access the internet’s websites. Chromium was invented by Google and both browsers you mentioned run on Chromium.

It’s not that Google controls the internet, but the vehicle (your browser) you use kind of does. And most of the vehicles are built using the code from the company that wants to impose this.

Browsers not run on Chromium:

  • Safari
  • Firefox
  • Midori
  • Otter Browser
  • GNOME
  • A few others (you can search to find them out)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I want to add Ladybird as one option for a new browser. It's still in its early days, but is under active development. I hope that one day it'll be in such a shape that it could be used as a daily driver. It's Open Source and built from scratch. It's awesome to follow the development of such a big project!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Where can I get Ladybird for Android?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

As I mentioned it's still in it's early days. They're working on the standards and support for all CSS properties and JS at the same time. The pages don't work yet, but things are moving forward every day. Don't know if someone will work on an Android version, it's open source after all. Currently it's working on SerenityOS and Linux.

I just wanted to voice out that there are alternatives in the works, that has nothing to do with Google or the other big tech companies.

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