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For all the evil Google may be guilty of they have done a lot of good work supporting open standards and releasing proprietary formats as open source. Let's not
by cutler 4y ago
For all the evil Google may be guilty of they have done a lot of good work supporting open standards and releasing proprietary formats as open source. Let's not forget how Chrome liberated the web from Microsoft's won't-fix attitude whilst IE remained the dominant browser.
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- account42 4y ago> For all the evil Google may be guilty of they have done a lot of good work supporting open standards and releasing proprietary formats as open source. Sure, there are defintitely things Google has done that have benefited the public. > Let's not forget how Chrome liberated the web from Microsoft's won't-fix attitude whilst IE remained the dominant browser. But I am unconvinced that Chrome is one of them. Firefox was doing fine displacing IE on its own and the main reason Chrome managed to pull ahead so fast was the huge marketing drive including ads on the home page of the worlds #1 website. Meanwhile, Chrome-driven extensions have made the web incredibly complicated to the extend that new browsers are almost impossible while its dominance holds back any real effort to put users into control of their web browsing experience since few websites care to support anything other than Chrome.