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It is not a positive, but a negative side to a monopolized browser market. Unrestrained power to define communication standards and protocols will eventually be
by Andrew_nenakhov 3y ago
It is not a positive, but a negative side to a monopolized browser market. Unrestrained power to define communication standards and protocols will eventually be used for malicious purposes and there will be no players in the market who would oppose it.
Use Firefox, the last bastion of the Free Web.
- Dalewyn 3y ago[flagged]
- Andrew_nenakhov 3y agoYeah right. IE6 'just worked' too and you didn't have to worry about compatibility if you used it.
- account42 3y agoI too would be more than happy for Mozilla to be replaced but thinking that Google is any less cancerous is simply retarded. In fact, one of the biggest problems with Mozilla (but not the only one) is that they are effectively a Google vassal that can't afford to challenge its master. As for all the other non-Google-reliance problems, you can bet that as another SV tech corp, Google has them all too and then some.
- AshleysBrain 3y agoFirefox is working on implementing WebGPU support too.
- Andrew_nenakhov 3y agoIt's not about WebGPU. It's about power to unilaterally define web standards.
- AshleysBrain 3y agoWhy bring that up with respects to a technology that was collaboratively designed between all major browser vendors?
- Andrew_nenakhov 3y agoBecause see the context. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35971422 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35971422