 So over the last year since I started this channel, I've talked a lot about browsers And those of you who have followed me through this time period know that I've switched between browsers many many times like I almost changed browsers more than I rice my Window manager like it's not quite true But it could be true because everybody knows I've made like dozens of videos at this point about web browsers and Firefox and Brave and The Voli and like you name it. I've made a topic about it and I'm honestly I'm tired like I'm tired of making content about web browsers because Let's be honest. There aren't any good ones like that every single web browser out there has some serious flaws Whether that flaw is that it doesn't render the web well. It doesn't block ads very good It doesn't have certain features. It has way too many features. It's owned by Google. It's owned by Microsoft I mean every single web browser has some flaws So there's not a perfect one out there and maybe asking for a perfect web browser is asking Entirely too much and I think it is no software on the face of the planet is perfect But I don't think it's too much to ask for a good web browser. There are some good web browsers out there Firefox is Good cute browser is good brave It pains me to say it, but it's good I'm not gonna save of all these good. I can't go that far They just put way too much crap in their browser to even really qualify as a browser anymore And I'm not gonna talk about the Google browsers Even though they could be considered good if you can force yourself to use them My point is is that we have many good browsers, but the browser space feels static It feels like it's not moving forward. It feels like things aren't getting better like we've reached the pinnacle of good or as the way I should say we've reached the pinnacle of meh, you know it's it's as far as they feel like they can take the web browser and Now it's just about maintaining the status quo and I don't think that that is Good for technology and I think one of the reasons why We're at this point is because we have no real competition in the browser space We have Google Chrome 85% or whatever the number is of people on the planet who use a computer and use a web browser use Google Chrome it's a sad fact of life and Mozilla our only hope in this quest as sad as that is to say doesn't seem to be Capable of Maintaining users anymore. I was trying to think of a good way to say it, but they're they're they're Hemorrhaging users really bad like they've lost like 50 million users or something in the last three years or some insane number like it's a lot so Firefox as much as we wish it was the answer to More competition it really is not whether that's because the browser is not good enough or because the Organization behind Firefox is Atrocious the answer is up for debate. So the question is why can't we have more browsers? And the answer is making a browser is fucking hard. It's really hard now. I'm not a developer I've constantly said that on this channel. Everybody knows that if you've watched some of my scripting videos I can barely do bash like I can do bash scripts, but they're really bad I can hear TFL often in the in the in the peanut gallery saying yeah, yeah, he doesn't know how to do that bash That's a good. That's an easy statement to make At least when they compared to TFL stuff, but the point is I'm not a developer But even I know that making a browser is fucking hard And that's the reason why we don't have more web engines If you want to make a web engine you have to have millions and millions of dollars and hundreds of Developers putting effort into it and making an open-source web engine is Damn, you're impossible when those are the things that you need to do it The only company that we could possibly that is the only two companies I could say could actually do this our canonical and red hat and The question then becomes why haven't they like why haven't they and in the I think the reason is is because even For those companies when they make millions of dollars and have you know hundreds of developers I think even they would find it way too hard maybe even impossible to do what we need done and I think that at the end of the day there is no real solution and that is just kind of heartbreaking because the web is our Number one tool in the world the internet is the thing that runs the world these days Like without the internet we wouldn't have YouTube we wouldn't have Any number of pleasures that we see every single day We wouldn't have a lot of the the the infrastructure we have for more important things That run the fabric of civilized worlds, you know, it's just not It's become so entrenched into society and it's controlled by one company Basically like the web is controlled like it or not by Google and we don't have a solution for it We just don't so when I started this video I was going to put forth the question why can't we have more web browsers and that is a good question Why can't we in the question the answer is is because it's too hard and too resource intensive for anybody to really take up any alternative web engine that pops up is usually so small and The tasks so large that it goes under almost immediately So what we need is an open source forward company Looking at you canonical looking at you red hat who's interested in taking on this problem. It would be Phenomenal for them to do so whether or not they would I like I said before I don't think that they would The problem is too hard canonical seems to be very buddy buddy with Google a lot of the times So I don't think that they even think that it's a problem. Maybe I'm wrong on that I mean, I know that they tend to partner on a lot of stuff So the the optics there can sometimes seem that they're much closer to Google than they maybe should be but Whether that's a whole nother argument and then we have red hat which is owned by IBM and They aren't interested at all really in the desktop market like there does not and I'm talking more about IBM like they didn't buy red hat because fedora exists You know, they just they didn't they bought it because the red hat makes millions of dollars Serving enterprise customers. That's where they make their money and that's where they'll continue to put their focus and creating a web browser or web engine doesn't do anything for that Market at least it does very little. So the two companies that could be our saviors in this space I don't think have the motivation to do it and that makes me sad So the question becomes is there anyone else? Like is there any other company out there that could come forward and even if they created a Web engine that is proprietary and the answer that question is Apple I mean Apple has web kits like they've created web kit, but nobody uses Safari unless it's on their iPhone And they don't and my Apple doesn't seem to be at all interested in propagating Safari further into the market like they don't It's so it's a web browser on their Macs They make hardware. Okay, they make hardware. That's where they make their money Making in a new web engine or propagating the web engine that they have into further into the market doesn't seem that they're all Interested in doing they have Safari for windows. They've had for years. It is The worst browser you'll ever try it is so bad And I would challenge the idea that anyone really uses it unless they absolutely have to so Apple's not an option I mean, I just giggle at the thought of Facebook doing it I mean even if you hilarious if they did because we still want to use it because it was made by Facebook, so It'd be hilarious if we got our wish a third web engine that was popular But it was made by Facebook so the open source community can actually support it So that's that's that's a problem as well So we could just keep going through the multi trillion dollar companies Amazon. Do we want to use an Amazon browser? I mean, that's the problem is like the only two companies that would actually want to do this that would actually do a good job and Would have the ability to maybe make it open source and make at least make it open source friendly IBM and canonical just don't have the motivation or the resources to do it. So And then you can name any other company. I mean, those are the two. I mean open Suza, I mean I Again, they have the same kind of problem that Red Hat does is that they focus on the server area and not so much on the desktop Or they have a really good desktop But very few people use open Suza as their daily driver in comparison to using Ubuntu or Fedora So they don't have the motivation either and they're like the third largest open source company After that it falls way down, right now the question then becomes what about something like the Linux Foundation? Or one of those open source foundations that make a lot of money So like the I saw an article a couple days ago the Linux. I think it was the Linux Foundation I may be I may be misremembering the name But one of those organizations made like 72 or 172 million dollars like it was like a shit ton of money They could put something that towards a browser and it would solve one of the biggest problems The world is probably going to face in the next five years, which is a Google monopoly over the web Which is already here the impact of that monopoly isn't hasn't really shown its face yet, and it's going to Because well, I mean we already are we already are seeing the impacts of it It's killing Firefox like Firefox has so many problems rendering the web I mean, I know a lot of people every time I say Firefox has problems rendering one page web pages. I Have several people come see I like I've never seen this Well, I mean I see it at least three times a day like patreon does not work well in Firefox it doesn't there's several problems with patreon going in the in the back end that just it just won't work won't render YouTube itself has problems rendering in Firefox. It adds extra spaces to all the descriptions Like that's a thing that it does now. It's not a big deal But it happens like there's these little things like a lot of times like my bank Won't render in Firefox at all like it looks weird Like buttons are in the wrong places that you can just tell that whoever designed that website didn't test in Firefox And that's the point. That's what we're seeing is that develop web developers aren't testing their websites in Firefox They have no reason to because comparatively speaking nobody uses Firefox So we are seeing the impact of the monopoly that already exists, but it's going to get worse Google is not a Moral company. We know this they used to be do no evil That's that used to be their model and they used to do a fairly good job of not being evil I'm not gonna say they were perfect. They were not perfect. They did evil things But since they removed that model they now seem to do whatever the hell they want to do no matter whether it be considered evil or not and eventually They will start taking advantage of their monopoly over the web if they haven't already and I think they have in some places and That's not good for anybody whether you use Linux or open-source software or not. It's just it's not so We need help. We need to find somebody out there that has the resources and motivation to fix this problem. So That's it for this video. 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