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AegirLeettoday at 11:18 AM3 repliesview on HN

The real hegemony is the Blink hegemony. Google (an advertising company) can pretty much unilaterally dictate web standards. A terrible state of affairs for the web. That's the real issue and using another Chrome reskin is never going to fix it.


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_verandaguytoday at 3:45 PM

This is the main reason I stay away from Vivaldi; using Firefox is, for all of Mozilla's borderline comical mismanagement, a protest vote against Blink (and previously, Chromium).

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DavideNLtoday at 3:33 PM

For those wondering...:

"Blink is a browser engine developed as part of the free and open-source Chromium project. Blink is by far the most-used browser engine, due to the market share dominance of Google Chrome and the fact that many other browsers are based on the Chromium code."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink_(browser_engine)

calvinmorrisontoday at 6:38 PM

Blink is a virtual machine. It's like complaining about the Hegemony of Perl