Plus email-SPAM(!!!) about installing Chrome when you signed in to your Google-account on a new computer using a non-Chrome browser.

It also used dubious wording: “You need to upgrade your browser. Click here”

And paying to have it bundled as a drive-by installation with other software.

And Chrome-only websites. And the list just goes on and on.

It was spyware tactics + SPAM all over the place. And the sheer amount of it was mind-blowing.

Even technical people who explicitly didn’t want Chrome had a hard time avoiding it. Imagine the effect on regular, non-technical users.

Saying it was all down to technical merit is just appoligist and delusional.

With Chrome’s dominance and semi-monoculture undeniably in place, Google is now using that position to force new things, like subverting open web-standards with DRM.

I can’t believe people are so non-chalantly allowing this to happen.