Ask HN: Why exactly is Chromium dominance such a bad thing?

Re:Ask HN: Why exactly is Chromium dominance such a bad thing? by bediger4000 on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @05:41PM (#32489346)

Puts too much power in Google's hands. Maybe not in terms of blacklisting, but certainly in terms of setting standards. What's good for a single giant megacorp is not necessarily good for other megacorps, or medium or small businesses.

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Re:Ask HN: Why exactly is Chromium dominance such a bad thing? by pipeline_peak on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @05:45PM (#32489393)

All I see is they’re pushing the envelop past what Mozilla and Apple can keep up with. How does this directly affect medium to small business?

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Re:Ask HN: Why exactly is Chromium dominance such a bad thing? by bediger4000 on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @06:21PM (#32489729)

Who knows? I'm not Alphabet CEO or even upper management. Anywhere.

I do know that questions like yours were common when MSFT made IE 6.0. We all know that ultimately was a disaster. Give Google a year or two of "not directly affecting" other businesses and then get back to me

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Re:Ask HN: Why exactly is Chromium dominance such a bad thing? by demygale on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @06:55PM (#32490070)

Chrome saved us from an abysmal browser market and endless websites that said “best viewed in Internet Explorer 6”.

Support ticket from Carvana yesterday told me to try chrome if I was experiencing problems. An open web won’t stay open for long if there’s a browser monopoly.

Do you think Google would try to crush competition the way MS did with their browser?

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Re:Ask HN: Why exactly is Chromium dominance such a bad thing? by bediger4000 on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @07:00PM (#32490124)

Without hesitation.

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Re:Ask HN: Why exactly is Chromium dominance such a bad thing? by pipeline_peak on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @07:06PM (#32490186)

Why wouldn’t they?

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Re:Ask HN: Why exactly is Chromium dominance such a bad thing? by demygale on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @07:32PM (#32490435)

Yes. Sorry that was vague. Chrome dominance is bad for the open web and Google is a bad actor in every space they inhabit. Web devs who code for chrome are as bad as those who coded for ie 6 before chrome.

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Re:Ask HN: Why exactly is Chromium dominance such a bad thing? by bediger4000 on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @09:24PM (#32491175)

Absolutely not the point, don't be dense.

Public corporations do things in their own interests. USA legal environment guarantees that. Google has been a decent actor in the past, but have slid into monopolizing ad sales and into surveillance capitalism.

Google will use a Chrome market dominance to warp standards for their own purposes. You personally may or may not like the warping or the results.

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