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It raises interesting questions of whether Google (advertising company) should be the guardian of the web's primary browser; strategically it could deprecate fe
by mutatio 6y ago
It raises interesting questions of whether Google (advertising company) should be the guardian of the web's primary browser; strategically it could deprecate features direct competitors depend on (let's assume FB is now also a ad company). The fact that web's primary ad platform also owns the web's primary browser sure is "interesting". The inverse of that is that it might not have incentive to deprecate features - which Google the company / partners depend on or might not be able to deprecate due to legal consequences of doing so (shutting down 25% of FB's revenue might raise eyebrows in the gov).
- jasonvorhe 6y agoiirc it was Mozilla who put the nail in the coffin of WebSQL and if you read this post, it actually mentions that Chrome was the last browser to even still support the feature after it had been abandoned by Firefox and Opera already. What does this have to do with Google owning Chrome? Of course, the question itself is valid but I don't see how it relates to the topic.