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Re:Tampermonkey: Dev Mode will become mandatory for running ... by ljm on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @12:55PM (#38534451)
Google simply saw where Microsoft failed in their Embrace, Extend, Extinguish strategy and figured out a way to do it better. By all accounts, Chrome has a bigger stranglehold on the web than IE ever did, and if you don't use Chrome you'll get a sub-standard experience in most of their products and services.

It says as much that Microsoft ditched their own browser engine for Chromium, so even if it's not Chrome it's still Google-driven.

Mozilla could have got in front of this by making Gecko/Servo as easy to embed as Chrome, so we'd see more alternative browsers based on Firefox tech.

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Re:Tampermonkey: Dev Mode will become mandatory for running ... by pndy on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @01:20PM (#38534849)
All of this Chrome popularity comes from hijacking with "additional offer" in Windows software installers where people just mindlessly click "next next finish" and then they didn't event noticed their browser changed. Google got their users by dirty tactics, not because their browser was good and gained interest of the public.
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