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What can we do to stop Google killing the open web other than complaining?

One way is to tell everyone to use Firefox (uBlock origin works there)

It is still an issue that the Mozilla Foundation is still 80% funded by Google though, so this needs to be solved first.

Somehow Firefox needs to be moved away from Mozilla if they cannot find an alternative funding source other than Google.

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You can donate to some project like ladybird or servo if they take donations. Or contribute.

Ladybird looks promising, but I don't see any donation form for this, only sponsorships.

If that is the case, we need to come together and donate thousands to ladybird en masse.

It might take around ~30 years for adoption but it is a start.

There is a donate button in the top right of https://ladybird.org/

Use the open web yourself, build on it, align with standars, and help them mature, participate in open standard bodies.

How long will this take us?

Don't you think Google and the other big tech companies already has massive influence in the W3C and web standards?

Stop using Chrome and Electron, but of course no one will, it was devs that made them what they are today.

If you read the article you will see that Mozilla supports the removal of XLST. So switching to Firefox which also turned off RSS support several years ago is hardly a good choice.

Ask antitrust authorities to dissolve them properly in acid.

That would have been true pre Mozilla implosion.

Firefox is used by 1% of users.

The top 1% of users :-)

You need to admit to yourself that maintaining a critical piece of software like a web browser costs a lot in work and finance and start figuring where and how you'll fund people that do more than complain.

Developing software is hard - and OSS hasn't found a way to do hard things yet.