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.