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From which risk perspective?



Well perhaps if we talked about browser perspective?

Chrome - we own the world so use our browser with its proprietary extensions and only works completely if you hand over a Google account.

Firefox - we try to follow standards and be good to users as long as we don't piss off the people who are paying our salaries too much.

Edge - So much faster and better than Chrome all you need to do is let us know all about you and what your doing and use our services that give us more 'stickyness' over your use of our browser.

Safari - Oh hey, we need a web browser so uh, here is a web browser.

Brave - Crypto currency is the best, oh here's a browser.

Chromium/Konquerer/etc/etc - Opensource is the best! Only we don't do what all the other browsers do, and half the time you'll find the web page is rendering weird but you can fix the code and send us a PR and we'll look at it and contemplate it.

Sure that is a cynical view, just trying to share what it feels like that to me.


> Chrome - we own the world so use our browser with its proprietary extensions and only works completely if you hand over a Google account.

I've never logged into a Chrome browser with my Google account. What am I missing? I know you do have to log in if you want to purchase certain Chrome extensions, but now that Google killed their payment infrastructure, this seems not to be an issue anymore.


> Safari - Oh hey, we need a web browser so uh, here is a web browser.

It is also the browser that has the best battery life on a Mac.

Also I find it to have the fastest UI.


Oh I agree it is an excellent browser for many things, and it is nicely "unOpinionated" on many things. It really only trips me up with web sites that are trying to "guess" my web browser and they guess wrong and then Safari ends up doing something stupid because the webdev thought it was firefox or chrome.




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