The article argues that there is a lack of genuine competition between internet browsers, with Chrome and its associated Google dominance being the only “game in town”.
There are other browsers, such as Firefox, that have their own advantages, but ultimately, users are “becoming part of” the engine used by the browser, which is often owned by Google or Apple.
Privacy is becoming increasingly difficult to maintain, so the author decided to look for two candidates, one each from the Firefox and Apple/Google orbits, ultimately deciding on LibreWolf and Vivaldi.
These were chosen because they are done a fine job of making Firefox without it being Firefox, and Vivaldi’s influence from the early Opera versions gave it a tiny bit of individuality missing in the others.
Ultimately, the author concluded that over three decades, the expectation of what a browser should be has homogenised to the extent that it is hard to tell them apart.
