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Re:Chrome breaks the Web by 013a on Monday November 06, 2017 @08:22PM (#15640404)
Choosing to use Chrome is also opt-in. Its the same concept. Its not ideal, but it is what it is.
Re:Chrome breaks the Web by nashashmi on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @11:49AM (#15644959)
I believe Chrome on mobile is the default (only?) browser. So it is opt-out, and a very painful opt-out that requires technical knowledge.

You ship an experience like that, you end up not only breaking old websites but shift the emphasis on regularly updated websites that work on mobile. That was the intent! But it is not the web we know and love.

Re:Chrome breaks the Web by khedoros1 on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @02:19PM (#15646568)
> I believe Chrome on mobile is the default (only?) browser.

It's default on a lot of Android phones, but far from the only one available. I use Firefox on mine. Opting to use a non-Chrome browser on an Android phone is about as technical as using a non-Microsoft browser under Windows.

Re:Chrome breaks the Web by walterstucco on Monday November 06, 2017 @08:53PM (#15640506)
developers cannot opt-in
Re:Chrome breaks the Web by 013a on Monday November 06, 2017 @09:44PM (#15640709)
They also can't opt-in to adblock or noscript or me choosing to run Netscape version 4. Developers fundamentally do not get a say on what I choose to run on my system; at best the only control they have is saying "nope we aren't even going to try to run on whatever you've got" but even that isn't a guarantee.
Re:Chrome breaks the Web by walterstucco on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @05:03AM (#15642118)
> They also can't opt-in to adblock or noscript or me choosing to run Netscape version 4.

This is a gross oversimplifcation

They also cannot opt-in if you don't have electricity in your house or don't own a computer

DOH!

This is not a real argument

A real argument is obsolescence

Of course there's a point when older versions are not supported anymore

Here we are talking about future versions breaking compatibility, without a shared consent, without a deprecation roadmap, that need to be supported, in a Chrome specific way, making Chrome the new IE for no real benefits to the user and a vendor lock-in by Google

When they users will try a different browser, for whatever reason, they will experience a different web, that for the majority of them being non techy will look like a broken web