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Safari (WebKit) is the one that is the last remaining serious competitor against Chromium.

Firefox has already lost years ago and is so useless to counter Chrome that they have to be funded by Google in order to survive. Mozilla's competitiveness for Firefox is close to zero.

The EU Digital Markets Act will just further solidify Chrome's dominance.




> Safari (WebKit) is the one that is the last remaining serious competitor against Chromium.

Safari isn't available on platforms other than Apple's (which have a minority share of computing devices on the market), so it's obviously not an actual competitor to Chromium based browsers.


Even if the DMA somehow results in Blink engine dominance, at least the engine is open, so alternative freedom and privacy-respecting browsers can build on it and patch out any evil features while mostly maintaining compatibility. Not a great outcome, but it'd be worth it to stamp out closed computer operating systems that don't let their users control what software they install. The current state of iOS and iPad OS is completely unacceptable.


If Chrome were a separate business entity, it would also have to be funded by Google to survive. Browsers simply cannot make money.




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