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I don't like Google being able to unilaterally dictate major internet standards in opposition of just about every non-Google group.
by rockskon 3y ago
I don't like Google being able to unilaterally dictate major internet standards in opposition of just about every non-Google group.
- AlexandrB 3y agoThe manifest v3 stuff might be a sign of things to come if someone doesn't slap down Google's near-monopoly. Google has every reason to make ad-blocking difficult and ineffective.
- giantrobot 3y agoNot just blocking but most of the Web<insert some device technology here> "standards" Google champions have little actual utility outside of better fingerprinting. Everything attached to the computer the browser can enumerate will be used to fingerprint individuals no matter their cookie settings or tab sandboxing.
- izacus 3y agoThe manifest v3 stuff was first brought onto the web via Safari and the HN defenders seemed happy about that. Why the double standard now with Google and blaming Google like they're the first?
- rockskon 3y agoWhy reframe the topic to something irrelevant? What the standard started out as is not what it ended as. The final result is the only thing that matters.
- izacus 3y agoWhat's not relevant about Google not being the one that created that kind of extension standard? "slapping down their near monopoly" is nonsense when the other browsers also follow the same extension approach.
- rockskon 3y agoBecause the problem is what Google did to the standard in opposition to just about every non-Google group, not that there was a standard called "manifest v3" at all.