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Re:I Tried to Live Without the Tech Giants. It Was Impossible by alsdkfjkqjwer on Friday August 14, 2020 @12:12PM (#24159782)
> Google for HTTP/2, Chrome, Web Vitals, Angular and so many other puzzle pieces without which the whole Internet wouldn't be what it is today. It showed foresight, wisdom, excellence, responsibility and stewardship.

That is a very creative way to describe forcing one-side standards via monopolies. By your logic, you also love IE4, HTTPxml, flashcookies, etc.

And you call microsoft business tactics in the 90s as "foresight, wisdom, excellence, responsibility and stewardship" because that is the text book those companies are following to push those "technologies" that are completely self-serving to show rich ads to you and control which video your browser can play or not.

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Re:I Tried to Live Without the Tech Giants. It Was Impossible by scarmig on Friday August 14, 2020 @02:40PM (#24161631)
IE gave us XHRs, which are kind of important to the modern web.

Monopolies have agency to remake the world; ecosystems have competition over a relatively fixed landscape. Each has their pros and cons, but to build a radically new social structure, nothing beats a monopoly.

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