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Very cool that Google built an anticompetitive browser that offers such useful features only to themselves. Very cool of you as a Google employee to say the qu
by RIMR 2y ago
Very cool that Google built an anticompetitive browser that offers such useful features only to themselves.
Very cool of you as a Google employee to say the quiet part out loud for us.
- danielmarkbruce 2y agoAre customers better off or worse off?
- trickstra 2y agoWorse, by having less alternatives to choose from. This is why anti-monopoly laws exist.
- danielmarkbruce 2y ago[flagged]
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- AlexandrB 2y agoWorse off. I have to use Meet for work, and I'm forced to run Chrome for Google's shitty software to run acceptably. Edit: And for some reason I have a Chrome profile even though I never created one and never "logged into" Chrome. Another thing that's been forced on me by Google's product team.
- Quarrel 2y agoMeet works in non-chromium browsers, so .. forced?
- karaterobot 2y agoTrying to be generous, the only reason I can think for why customers would be worse off is that Google is literally the only one who can be trusted with this kind of power. Not Zoom, not Microsoft, not the user whose data is being transmitted, etc. But even that does not explain why the existence of the API was not disclosed. Do you agree that that looks bad for them? Then there is the fact that Google is far from being a company people trust. They should be rushing to be transparent about their decision, if there is a good, persuasive reason for it. They could use the good press. Instead, they made a secret API that can read privileged system information, locked it so that nobody else could use it, and then never told anybody about it—all while claiming to be secure, and privacy-focused, and definitely not abusing their browser monopoly.
- danielmarkbruce 2y ago[flagged]
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- walls 2y ago> Google is by and large run by a bunch of engineers who are trying to do the right thing and often don't think about how things might be perceived. Strange statement given that there's absolutely no evidence of that.
- danielmarkbruce 2y agoAsk anyone who ever worked there, at least a few years ago it was true.
- account42 2y ago"Of course we are the good guys, it's everyone else who is misguided when they get upset after finding out out about our awesome work." Choosing to work for an advertising giant already calls into question either your ability to tell what "the right thing" is our your honesty in claiming to do it.