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Good on Anthropic! I appreciate how deliberate they are on maintaining user trust. Have preferred Claude's responses more through the API, so I don't imagine this would have affected me as much but it is still nice to see.

>Just as America would like to reduce its dependence on external production, so to do other countries want to reduce their own.

Conflating the president's desire and projecting it onto ordinary people. Most people don't care about this issue, it's the current president who is hellbent on destroying free trade.


What? It's literally open source, you can ssh into the thing and change whatever you want. I am running a fork of a fork of the code right now. I change things all the time.


I am so glad this made first page news on HN!!

Years ago I remember flying with Delta and wondering why the delta bot could beat me in a handful of moves on EASY. Absolutely insane.


And its userbase is essentially just HN users unfortunately


And it’s trying to get them to run away as fast as possible.

Firefox is not going to save us again. It’s arguably part of the problem in a different way.


It's amazing how you can literally start a nonprofit to code a billion-dollar browser, give it away for free, and let people modify it however they want and then HN users will still find a way to act like this is being evil and exploitative. It's as if they care more about whining than they do about their supposed open-source principles.



HN users are almost entirely Google users


Until websites block you from logging in, completing transactions, ordering items until you open it with Chrome


Or just get buggy. I have absolutely run into sites that work on mobile Safari but not on desktop Safari. Because they don’t test it and don’t care.

You HAVE to use Chrome or possibly Firefox. We’ve always seen what Firefox is doing, they’re not going to be our saviors again.


There’s a meaningful amount of blame here that sits squarely at the feet of Apple.

1. They produce the world’s buggiest browser by far. Look at this chart that shows the number of bugs that ONLY OCCUR IN A SINGLE BROWSER. https://wpt.fyi/results/?label=master&label=experimental&ali...

2. They don’t support any modern testing protocols like WebdriverBiDi

3. They don’t make their software available to anyone who isn’t using Apple’s hardware.

The core root of the problem is very clearly Apple who’ve done nothing other than make the world’s buggiest and least accessible browser and then tried to hold everyone hostage who was previously forced to use it until courts had to stop them and they had no choice.


> They don’t make their software available to anyone who isn’t using Apple’s hardware.

Why should they? When did this become a rule? If Atari survived would they be required to make Windows software? Be? Commodore?

Where/why does/should the law require everyone to make Windows apps?

Really?


Why should people buy special, extra expensive hardware to test with a bad web browser?

It's logical to skip that step.


If you read it, it shows the impact Google has on browser quality for end users.


Exactly, so you can't generate a cent of revenue. OpenAI got millions of people to buy a $20/mo subscription. You couldn't.


I'm not sure they did. What do you think is the answer to "Why would you trust chrome if you care about privacy?"


GP said:

> I don't understand why anyone would choose Chrome over Firefox. I get that it's performant, but it's developed by a dominant advertising company. Why would you trust Chrome if you care about your privacy?

I believe the vast majorty of people do not care about their privacy, answering GP's question.


Very tinfoil hat of them.


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