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Digger9850 ,

You know what kind of org Google is don’t you ?

arran4 ,

Limited time to build something so you have to pick based on a couple factors, often largest % of users.

iquanyin ,
@iquanyin@lemmy.world avatar

cheap. easy to admin.

Brkdncr ,

I don't know, works on my browser.

-Devs, probably.

EmperorHenry ,
@EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

brave browser is right there. Just saying.

Psythik ,

Firefox is less sketchy, and is one of the last browsers left that isn't based on Chromium. Just saying.

EmperorHenry ,
@EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Firefox is less sketchy,

Not anymore, If you want a firefox based browser, go with mullvadbrowser, Tor or Librewolf, all with canvas blocker set to the proactive? protection profile...I think it's called.

nymphlode ,
@nymphlode@pawb.social avatar

what's sketchy about Firefox?

EmperorHenry ,
@EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

It connects you to google analytics and other advertising companies like double-click

Librewolf is firefox without the crap that firefox has now.

bingbong ,

brave vivaldi

!only if you have to use chromium of course!<

fitgse ,

🍻here’s to all the developers out there who makes sure there site works great not only with Firefox, but also with ublock origin and piholes!

It is always shocking to me how many sites or apps completely fail to load if you dare block google analytics!

FreshLight ,
@FreshLight@sh.itjust.works avatar

I believe that this is illegal.

nexussapphire ,

There's no law saying you need to support multiple platforms. There are some windows apps that don't exist on macos for example. It just sucks.

casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer ,

Nope. Afaik, there is still no legal precedent set that you must make your publicly available website usable on more than one browser suite. Which is ludicrous, because Google has quietly been trying to make Chrome the only option.

DesertMagma ,

Well good thing my employer runs a script every 15 min to set the default browser to Edge.

mac ,
@mac@infosec.pub avatar

Jeez, imagine.

HelloHotel ,
@HelloHotel@lemmy.world avatar

run a script to set the default browser back to chrome just after it changes, using some timer estimation magic
also... try taskkill

linearchaos ,
@linearchaos@lemmy.world avatar

They probably get better metrics off of you running corporate logins and edge. Edge is equivalent to Chrome It supports all the same plugins.

It's probably just secops picking the low hanging fruit dissuade you
subverting network security.

n3m37h ,

Edge is built upon chromium

linearchaos ,
@linearchaos@lemmy.world avatar

When I say that Edge is equivalent to Chrome, I don't mean that Edge is exactly Chrome It's not what I said and it's not what I meant. I mean that for all intents and purposes you can use edge for anything you want to use Chrome for. Major differentiation is that you're giving all of your data to Microsoft in lieu of Google. And you could look at all the other chromium base browsers and say yeah you could do the same thing with those but in this case we have a business user. There's businesses are probably already running Microsoft networks. They might very well already have Microsoft SSO. Edge is going to have all kinds of great tie-ins to active directory policy. So secops/it is going to try to force you to use Edge, instead of say Firefox with a barely have any control over or maybe brave where you're going to try TOR or IPFS and just basically be a stain on their HIDS board.

n3m37h ,

Edge is equivalent to Chrome It supports all the same plugins.

What's this then?

linearchaos ,
@linearchaos@lemmy.world avatar

Jesus man I just explained it to you. Welcome to my block list

n3m37h ,

Ah I see Mr I'm never wrong

GilgameshCatBeard ,

Because they’re paid to.

shalva97 ,

because it has more market share

diffcalculus ,

By a huge margin

AVeryCleverName ,

I wonder if it would work if you spoofed your user agent.

HelloHotel ,
@HelloHotel@lemmy.world avatar

it almost always does, lol

prosp3kt ,

To avoid testing on other platforms. Money is limited.

Freesoftwareenjoyer ,

Yeah, that was the case in one of the companies I worked for. They only tested on Chrome and Edge.

AA5B ,

I’ve been at companies that did that too, historically, but it seems like a solved problem. My current company does UI testing only through headless browsers and it seems to work

Freesoftwareenjoyer ,

Nice!

blahsay ,

This could be a 'works better on chrome popup'. Instead it's a hard block

Floshie ,

Because it's secure

Crashumbc ,

Google pays them...

GilgameshCatBeard ,

Said the same thing. Was downvoted for it. Lemmy is weird

pickman_model ,

Sorry to hear that. The Internet overall is a weird place. Some corners are more so than others.

doctorcrimson ,

Standardization is nice for people who make sites and people who use them.

AnUnusualRelic ,
@AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world avatar

That's not what a web site is though. That's just an application with a network api.

Lemzlez ,

Which is why we have HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript, supported by all major browsers.

Unless you're doing something outrageously non-standard, there is no reason to block specific browsers.

aluminium ,

These terms are absolutely meaningless. Browsers like all Chromium forks and Firefox add new CSS, HTML and JS features on a almost monthly basis. Safari then usually is takes a year more to implement them. And for the past few years Chrome has usually been adding new stuff the fastest, then Firefox a bit later and then Apple adds them after a year, but only if they don't threaten the native Apps on iOS because of AppStore money.

Freesoftwareenjoyer ,

Web standards keep evolving, this is normal. Otherwise you would be still running Adobe Flash.

sfgifz ,

Safari is the new IE?

Treczoks ,

Except for politics.

prosp3kt ,

Why you are getting downvotes? Actually Mozilla standardizes things on web

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