We Need Chrome No More

Re:We Need Chrome No More by NotANaN on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @11:56AM (#19264578)

There is an important difference between Google and Microsoft. Google is using their market dominance to push their opinions on the open standards bodies; Microsoft used their market dominance to ignore standards bodies completely.

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Re:We Need Chrome No More by TicklishTiger on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @12:09PM (#19264755)

Googles browser offers functionality to Googles websites that it does not offer to any other website.

When you log into an Google owned site, it interacts with the browser so that you are 'logged into your browser' with that Google account.

That is not pushing standards into a direction. That is blatant exploitation of ther market position.

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Re:We Need Chrome No More by fastball on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @12:16PM (#19264821)

You're already logged into sites you're already logged into.

I'm not exactly sure how advantageous you think this is.

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Re:We Need Chrome No More by Technetium_Hat on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @04:02PM (#19266898)

Yeah, all that really happens is that it shows your profile picture, and autofills passwords, when it detects the google login cookie. Nothing that other browsers couldn't implement themselves.

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Re:We Need Chrome No More by jessaustin on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @06:55PM (#19267977)

For what sites would other browsers do this? Would those browsers be paid by those sites?

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Re:We Need Chrome No More by ori_b on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @12:19PM (#19264862)

The standards are unimplementably complex. Open but inaccessible is not useful for fostering competitors.

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