'Break up big tech's monopoly': Smaller rivals join growing chorus

Re:'Break up big tech's monopoly': Smaller rivals join growi... by pottertheotter on Friday January 17, 2020 @11:51AM (#22076358)

I'm not very involved in the browser/web standards space, so I just started to realize the stranglehold Google has there. It's terrifying! I was quite involved in the 90's and reminds me of Microsoft with IE, but no one seems to care this time.

I've been wondering the last couple days how people can best support Mozilla, aside from simply switching to Firefox. And how to best share the message with others who aren't technical or normally wouldn't care, like my friends and family. I'm willing to put up with some conveniences from not using Chrome, but that might be enough for them to not care.

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Re:'Break up big tech's monopoly': Smaller rivals join growi... by laughingbovine on Friday January 17, 2020 @01:44PM (#22077740)

IIRC the Microsoft antitrust issues came from the fact that IE was the default browser and people didn't know they could switch. Chrome needs to be actively installed first before it can be used, so that whole issue is gone.

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Re:'Break up big tech's monopoly': Smaller rivals join growi... by bagacrap on Friday January 17, 2020 @02:38PM (#22078345)

IE had way more market share than Google-controlled browsers; MS let the web stagnate and trapped users in their worst of breed browser. I don't really see that many similarities. Google is currently in a leading position because they're most dependent on the web to succeed (MS and Apple never cared much about it), and thus have poured the most resources into it. But I don't see a lot of cases of that dominant position harming the end user.

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