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Google effectively controls the engine's development, and additionally effectively controls the web standardization process (de facto or de jure). This is bad f
by csb6 6y ago
Google effectively controls the engine's development, and additionally effectively controls the web standardization process (de facto or de jure). This is bad for obvious reasons. It would be neat if there was another browser not effectively run by Google. Being open-source is nice, but who writes the commits? Who controls the direction? Mostly Googlers. Sure, others contribute, but the project is obviously steered by Google. Having most of the user experience/stack of the Web controlled by one company is called a monoculture and it isn't good.
- sneak 6y ago> This is bad for obvious reasons. Those reasons are not obvious to me.
- Alekhine 6y agoGoogle is incentivised to twist the web to their benefit, not everybody's. Any profit driven entity is. That's why a Google browser monoculture is bad. Do you understand?
- sneak 6y agoNo, because browser is open source and can be forked or modified by anyone should Google do something that threatens the web. AMP, for example, has nothing to do with their control of Chrome.