> This will result in Mozilla and Apple having to licence Google's model, or ship a model that's quirks-compatible with the Google model in order to be interoperable. It may also become difficult for Chrome to update its own model for the same reasons.

Google is again doing Evil.

I am very annoyed that Google kind of de-facto controls the www (through chrome, let's be honest here).

We really need to change this. I don't have a good solution here, but it can not continue that way.

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jraph 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> We really need to change this. I don't have a good solution here, but it can not continue that way.

Advocacy (against chromium and its forks) is one way.

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motbus3 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Chrome is not that good anymore compared to other browsers. I switched long time ago and if the doesn't work with basic features I just leave the site out instead of letting it use chrome to control me

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thrance 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Lina Khan's FTC sought to break Google into multiple companies, leaving Chrome alone. Alas, Google escaped unscathed.

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youre-wrong3 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Only have yourselves to blame. Chrome made the internet better but everyone put their fingers in their ears about it getting worse at the same time.

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halJordan an hour ago | parent | next [-]

It was hard to stomach the "I looove Chrome. It can do no wrong" but these "Why did we let google control everything" comments are even worse

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darkwater 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Which Internet did make better?

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dannyw 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

You remember the IE days right?

Being a web developer was not fun; and the web was absolutely being held back. Chrome did a lot of things right: per-origin sandboxing, properly implementing web standards, V8, developer tools, and back then Chromium was super close to Chrome.

Do I think Chrome is a net-negative for the web over the past ~3-5 years? Yes, especially with manifest v3, “privacy sandbox”, and them basically forcing through web APIs because they have the dominant marketshare.

But early Chrome was a technologically impressive and user-friendly browser that really did make the web massively better.

I remember happily putting Firefox and Chrome mini-banners (what are they called? Those little rectangular images) on my website, for free, because I recommended it.

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izacus 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The one you're using every day filled with web apps that runsl securely without you dowloading sketchy binaries or being locked into walled garden app stores.

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bilekas 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

For anyone working in the web area during the old IE days will know, not having to have a dedicated css and js for each browser type was a gamechanger.

Chrome's introduction, albeit through smoother, lighter browser experience at the time, pushed other browsers to standardize to google.

In one way it's bad to have a homogenous approach to all things web based, but in another way it did make the internet a better experience overall.

	▲	dannyw 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		In the horror days of IE, I remember having to look up some DirectX filter to properly display PNG images with transparency. It was that bad, and that’s one example of 1000. Some libraries/scripts helped normalise things a little, but never enough. Yuck.

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hk__2 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Both, actually. It did make some parts of the Internet better, and some other worse.