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Google's practices pushing web non-standards haphazardly are so heinous that even Electron can't usually handle general web apps, like WhatsApp (especially) bec

Google's practices pushing web non-standards haphazardly are so heinous that even Electron can't usually handle general web apps, like WhatsApp (especially) because it depends on Chrome-specific, not even Chromium, features. Many others are the same way.

echelon 7y ago
Can you cite this? I'm collecting a laundry list of reasons Google has degraded the web, and this is certainly evidence.
- green-eclipse 7y ago
  If you go back in time far enough, Google has improved the web exponentially more than it has harmed it.
  - huehehue 7y ago
    This is a bit hard to say, right? Google is also responsible for the normalization of aggressive user tracking and the creation of the ad-ridden tire fire that is the modern internet.
- DCoder 7y ago
  I wrote up one example that was particularly frustrating when I realized it [0]. [0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/ar1qj1/_/egl52wk/ https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/ar1qj1/_/egl52...