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As a Chrome user I feel obligated to defend my use as: "I like it the most." As long as Google continues to offer a better experience, I don't mind them dominat

As a Chrome user I feel obligated to defend my use as: "I like it the most." As long as Google continues to offer a better experience, I don't mind them dominating the market. *As long as they don't use anticompetitive practises to prevent competition.* IE, backed by the most powerful tech company on the planet (at the time), used to be 95% of the internet. If IE can fall, so can Chrome.

sbuk 4y ago
This means, if blink/chromium does come to dominate, means an end to the open web. Be very careful what you wish for.
- Gareth321 4y ago
  - trasz 4y ago
    Microsoft didn’t control server infra. Google does. And they are already abusing this position.
  - sbuk 4y ago
    It came very close. Had AOL/Netscape/Mozilla not opensourced and push open standards when they did, things would be very different.
pteraspidomorph 4y ago
IE was replaced because it was a hole-riddled nonstandard mess, and Google used their position to shove Chrome into everyone's mindshare (something this regulation appears to forbid, incidentally). Chrome isn't nonstandard because Google are very careful to comply with standards - which is easy enough when they have many employees involved with designing them and tend to manipulate those committees in their favor, and even if they fail they can just release whatever they want and use the technology's widespread adoption to justify its eventual standardization. Also, as a modern browser, Chrome is patched frequently, so the security angle is also a nonstarter.