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Usually I'm all for that everything made these days, should work across all browsers. That said, the Chromecast was always named just that: Chrome-cast, after
by josteink 10y ago
Usually I'm all for that everything made these days, should work across all browsers.
That said, the Chromecast was always named just that: Chrome-cast, after Google's proprietary browser. It was for instance not called the Web-cast. That's a pretty clear signal right there.
There's a thousand different browsers available to the curious user these days, but for years and years now the only (2?) browsers that have been supported was chrome and chromium.
Firefox for instance, has never received support. A big fuck you to what at the time was 25% of all internet users. The "fix"? Tell people to move to chrome (and how is Chrome's market share these days?).
This change just brings the amount of supported browsers down from 2 to 1 and the amount of unsupported browsers up from 998 to 999. Hardly a big change if you think about it.
Now... You have a proprietary browser, running proprietary nonstandard extensions to interact with proprietary online services and give them preferential treatment...
That's way beyond anything Microsoft did in the 90s to get the famous MSIE antitrust conviction.
How come Google gets off scot free?