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Note: I edited my comment to simply be a copy of the email I sent to the devs. You quoted the original text. >I think it makes sense for the browser to attempt

Note: I edited my comment to simply be a copy of the email I sent to the devs. You quoted the original text. >I think it makes sense for the browser to attempt to deliver the best experience it can to users, and they may believe they get better performance and behavior from unaccelerated rendering. So should they also blacklist Windows because it's spying on its users? No, of course not. They should do their best to deliver a good experience in the domains for which they are responsible. >It's no different from websites looking at user-agent strings to work around known bugs This is also a very dumb anti-practice.

XMPPwocky 8y ago
> So should they also blacklist Windows because it's spying on its users? No, of course not. They should do their best to deliver a good experience in the domains for which they are responsible. If a Windows graphics acceleration component spied on its users, Chromium should absolutely blacklist that component, and use software rendering instead.
nl 8y ago
Personally I believe a non-crashing browser is a good user experience.
geofft 8y ago
They don't blacklist Windows because it spies on users, but they absolutely blacklist anything from AV to malware because it causes instability. https://blog.chromium.org/2017/11/reducing-chrome-crashes-caused-by-third.html https://blog.chromium.org/2017/11/reducing-chrome-crashes-ca... This seems like exactly the same thing. They're responsible for delivering a browser that renders webpages successfully. They're doing what needs to be done to make this happen.
tomnipotent 8y ago
> So should they also blacklist Windows because it's spying on its users? That's such silly rhetoric, no wonder you're in the situation you're in. > This is also a very dumb anti-practice. So is crashing users machines and then blaming Chrome for doing what's best for its users.

XMPPwocky 8y ago

> So should they also blacklist Windows because it's spying on its users? No, of course not. They should do their best to deliver a good experience in the domains for which they are responsible. If a Windows graphics acceleration component spied on its users, Chromium should absolutely blacklist that component, and use software rendering instead.

nl 8y ago

Personally I believe a non-crashing browser is a good user experience.

geofft 8y ago

They don't blacklist Windows because it spies on users, but they absolutely blacklist anything from AV to malware because it causes instability. https://blog.chromium.org/2017/11/reducing-chrome-crashes-caused-by-third.html https://blog.chromium.org/2017/11/reducing-chrome-crashes-ca... This seems like exactly the same thing. They're responsible for delivering a browser that renders webpages successfully. They're doing what needs to be done to make this happen.

tomnipotent 8y ago

> So should they also blacklist Windows because it's spying on its users? That's such silly rhetoric, no wonder you're in the situation you're in. > This is also a very dumb anti-practice. So is crashing users machines and then blaming Chrome for doing what's best for its users.