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saying an advertisement company mostly cares about playing ads doesn't register as cynical to me.

• kalleboo 8y ago
  Right. Of the main browser vendors, Safari and Edge's conflict of interest is they'd prefer people make native apps over webapps. Chrome's conflict of interest is they don't want you to block ads. Firefox is the only browser with user-aligned incentives (as long as they ignore who pays a lot of their income...)
  • make3 8y ago
    Hmm I guess this analysis explains why IE has sucked for so long
    • kalleboo 8y ago
      Microsoft has a long history of extend, embrace and extinguish, IE was just one of those. https://www.zdnet.com/article/intel-exec-ms-wanted-to-extend-embrace-and-extinguish-competition/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/intel-exec-ms-wanted-to-extend... > It was in this meeting that Microsoft executives said they intended to "embrace, extend, extinguish" competing technologies, including Internet standard HTML, McGeady said https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/atr/legacy/2006/04/10/2613f.pdf https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/atr/legacy/2006/... > we will loose [sic] the Internet platform battle if we do not have a significant user installed base. The industry would simply ignore our standards. Few would write Windows apps without the Windows user base. — at your level, if you let your customers deploy Netscape Navigator, you loose [sic] the leadership on the desktop.