Nobody's defending X. The point is that it doesn't matter that FF has strict privacy controls if sites can afford to just...not support FF. Its market share will dwindle to zero and privacy will be dead.
FWIW it seems like the browser market is shifting away from third party cookies anyways, so I'm not sure this is a huge issue.
yep this is why cracking open ios was a mistake, especially for the android crowd who’d never be caught dead owning an iPhone anyway.
there was barely a slope to begin with, you’ve got chrome in a majority and safari in a minority and then Firefox as a rounding error. Obviously if you crush safari, google is just gonna go mask-off full-manifest-v3 and plenty of other sites would be happy to follow. it was obvious from the start, people were just happy they finally got a legislated “win” to the android/iOS debate.
“Don’t be evil” was dead for at least 10 years, and people pay lip service to acknowledging this and then go right on acting like google has their best interests at heart anyway.
The trouble here is that we're dealing with a concentrated market and neither Google nor Apple are selfless philanthropists. "We need Apple to protect us from Google" only leaves you wondering who will protect you from Apple. What we need is for both companies to be broken into a dozen or more pieces so none of them has market power in anything anymore.
FWIW it seems like the browser market is shifting away from third party cookies anyways, so I'm not sure this is a huge issue.