This thread, then, mostly gets answers which are on the mildest end because those who actually hold opinions out of step with the majority know damn well not to speak up, or, well… be immediately othered

Bigotry against the bigoted isn’t bigotry.

These comments are shit. Who said that you should comply with Russia’s laws???

I like it because there are some very obscure sites in its index I couldn’t find in any other search engine, which can be returned from fairly simple queries.

The other search engines still work but I tend to get irrelevant nonsense as results

Yahoo and Duckduckgo return pretty good results for me.

Don’t forget about Pale Moon and Basilisk.

The billionaire is the one who told them to do it.

So what? They would have eventually done it without him.

Yes. Chromium isn’t bad in itself though.

What do you mean by “we shouldn’t let perfect be the enemy of good”? Why should I use a browser which is actively anti-user when there are better alternatives out there?

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https://archive.today/2025.10.09-163824/https://techtrenches.substack.com/p/the-great-software-quality-collapse

Interesting fact: Firefox (or Gecko to be accurate, because there was no single “Firefox” browser back then - there was Netscape Navigator and Mozilla Application Suite) had such rendering mode, but it was quickly abandoned.[1]

1. https://hsivonen.fi/doctype/: “In the summer of 2000 before Netscape 6 was released, Gecko actually had parser modes that enforced HTML syntax rules and one of these modes was called the “Strict DTD”. These modes were incompatible with existing Web content and were abandoned.”

I can’t imagine why I would want to save the interface on a YouTube page

Archiving a community post, for example.