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Re:The DOJ Still Wants Google to Sell Off Chrome by AnonHP on Saturday March 08, 2025 @11:50AM (#43301518)
> The problem isn't within Google. They aren't doing anything substantial to lock users into Chrome.

I feel this is meant to trigger people into reacting and causing a flame war.

Google has been making its own web properties work well on Google Chrome while making them perform poorer or make them break on other browsers. Google Chrome optimizes for Google, not the web, and certainly not “the open web”.

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Re:The DOJ Still Wants Google to Sell Off Chrome by hypeatei on Saturday March 08, 2025 @12:25PM (#43301775)
One example of special treatment is Chrome giving *.google.com sites access to system metrics for the CPU, GPU, and RAM usage[0][1] through a default extension that isn't exposed to users.

[0]: https://xcancel.com/lcasdev/status/1810696257137959018

[1]: https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:chr...

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