Letters

I enjoyed Issue 611’s Cover Feature (pictured below) on alternative browsers to Chrome and Edge, but feel you missed out an important reason why you’d want to switch, which is that Google and Microsoft do almost everything they can to force their browsers on to you. I find this lack of choice the polar opposite of what the internet should be about.

Microsoft in particular has a poor reputation for this. It got into legal trouble years ago for including Internet Explorer with Windows 98, and now tries to pretend that Edge is the only browser worth using. Google follows suit by tying Chrome to Android to such a degree that it takes a real effort to discover and use an alternative browser.

Microsoft and Google rely on people sticking with what they know, which is why it’s so refreshing to see so strongly recommending rivals like Brave and Vivaldi. These smaller browsers are increasingly used by people ‘in the know’ who are fed up with the