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Re:Firefox 90 by fleddr on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @03:20AM (#27830539)
This assumes that Google is actively pushing improvements to the web that are largely useless or solely beneficial to Google itself.

I believe that to be far from the truth, minus a handful of exceptions. I believe a better and more capable web is the only still "open" platform developers have if they don't want to submit to app stores.

You could of course support the idea of a more conservative pace, as dictated by Apple. I don't buy that. For that they need to be a stand-up citizen on the web. They are not. Apple doesn't document things, has no working feedback loop, actively hampers or obscures things important to the web.

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Re:Firefox 90 by simondotau on Sunday July 18, 2021 @12:12AM (#27870711)
I’m not saying the changes themselves are necessarily bad, I’m saying the rate of change and the rapid increase in complexity benefits Google at the expense of anyone who dares to compete with them.

The web used to be more like the Linux kernel; today it is a fully captured corporate-led platform where only billion dollar companies can play. The problem isn’t that Apple isn’t keeping up with Google; the problem is there aren’t more entities like Apple pushing back.

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