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Re:Feds may target Google's Chrome browser for breakup by onion2k on Sunday October 11, 2020 @02:45AM (#24744167)
Have you ever used another browser and seen a "This site works better in Chrome, download now" on a Google property?

I find it hard to blame Google or Chrome for that. It's a developer (or business) choice.

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Re:Feds may target Google's Chrome browser for breakup by viraptor on Sunday October 11, 2020 @03:14AM (#24744237)
Why do you find it hard to blame Google (the business behind Chrome) for making a business decision of pushing for Chrome installation? This is a straightforward relationship.
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Re:Feds may target Google's Chrome browser for breakup by onion2k on Sunday October 11, 2020 @04:14AM (#24744427)
I didn't say I agreed with that[1]. All I said was developers making websites that only work in Chrome is the devs fault; it's not Chrome's problem.

[1] As it happens Google advertising Chrome on Google websites seems fairly reasonable to me, but anyway.

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Re:Feds may target Google's Chrome browser for breakup by viraptor on Sunday October 11, 2020 @07:01AM (#24744951)
An independent developer - sure. But Google developers should not be actively making other browser's access worse. (They did)
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Re:Feds may target Google's Chrome browser for breakup by rgbrenner on Sunday October 11, 2020 @02:09PM (#24747763)
[1] As it happens Google advertising Chrome on Google websites seems fairly reasonable to me, but anyway.

This is the very definition of monopoly abuse: Using your monopoly in one market (search) to push into another market (browsers). Exactly what got Microsoft in trouble in the 90s... and looking at firefox marketshare, it's having exactly the same results.

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