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Re:Google Being Forced to Sell Chrome Is Not Good for the Web by chneu on Saturday March 15, 2025 @04:22AM (#43370954)
I would like to point out that your perception of what a browser can/should be is based on what Google has turned browsers into.

What a browser is in 2025 is vastly different from what anyone thought they would ever be. There are major, major issues with the way web engines/web browsers function today and much of those issues stem from Google's near monopoly on browsers.

There was a lot of very interesting and good discussion around this in some of the Mozilla/Firefox threads recently. Mostly about how browsers turned into something they were never meant to be, which has changed the way the internet works and how we interact with it.

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Re:Google Being Forced to Sell Chrome Is Not Good for the Web by amrocha on Saturday March 15, 2025 @04:34AM (#43371001)
What do browsers do that they weren’t meant to?

The only thing that comes to mind is password management. But I would also argue that’s a boon for normal users and trust in the web.

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Re:Google Being Forced to Sell Chrome Is Not Good for the Web by darkwater on Saturday March 15, 2025 @05:00AM (#43371134)
> What do browsers do that they weren’t meant to?

For example, asking you straight on first launch to log into your Google account, for your "benefit".

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Re:Google Being Forced to Sell Chrome Is Not Good for the Web by amrocha on Saturday March 15, 2025 @06:56AM (#43371668)
In a multi device world that makes sense though. If you save your passwords on your phone, you don’t want to lose them all if that phone breaks.
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Re:Google Being Forced to Sell Chrome Is Not Good for the Web by light_hue_1 on Saturday March 15, 2025 @11:47AM (#43373253)
Restrict extensions for "security" reasons. Which just killed most ad blockers in Chrome.

Speed up the web with AMP that gives one company control over everything.

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Re:Google Being Forced to Sell Chrome Is Not Good for the Web by amrocha on Sunday March 16, 2025 @01:58AM (#43377164)
I think security is within the purview of a browser. Even if I disagree with the implementation.

And AMP is not a browser feature.

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Re:Google Being Forced to Sell Chrome Is Not Good for the Web by chneu on Thursday March 20, 2025 @04:35AM (#43420883)
They're basically sandboxed OSes now. This was discussed at length in the recent Mozilla threads, especially in relation to waterfox and other forks of gecko.
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