Post #2111716
2026-05-06 14:12 UTC
@nachtfunke @jaffathecake
Honestly I think Chrome's dominance is severely overrated and that will continue to be the case unless Chrome decides to stop shipping Chromium as open source.
Even if Chrome users are the majority, so long as Apple users still use Safari, and iphone (something which cannot use chrome) exists, Google cannot have utter dominance.
Especially since I imagine many Chromium forks will not have this. Unless a website is going to only allow Chrome and other things that use this API, no website cannot make this mandatory.
As much as I hate needing to account for browser differences when doing webdev, I am actually thankful for it in cases like this.
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@jgg@qoto.org 2026-05-06 19:28
@enthusiast101 @nachtfunke @jaffathecake Safari use out of the US is minimal. Even in the US, most of iPhone owners use Chrome. Alternative Chrome engine browsers can help, if they choose to not use this. I'm pretty sure some of them will not. Let's hope Google don't make life harder to them by integrating it deeply into the engine. But the only real barrier to Chrome total dominance is Firefox. Other browser engines are on the way, but it will take years for them to be competitive, if they get there.