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How do you feel about Google effectively controlling the web, since they control the browser with overwhelming market share? Is that a factor, or...?
by JohnBooty 2y ago
How do you feel about Google effectively controlling the web, since they control the browser with overwhelming market share?
Is that a factor, or...?
- tim333 2y agoFrom the browser point of view I don't really worry. I do have various other browsers and such like if Google were to be annoying. Their browser share has dropped from a peak around 90% to more like 67% I think. I am a bit wary about their dominant position in advertising, though people still google stuff and see google ads if they use other browsers.
- JohnBooty 2y agoTheir browser share has dropped from a peak around 90% to more like 67% I think. Those browsers gaining market share are based on Google's engine, though. That still gives Google de facto control of the web, or at the very least control of web standards. Those companies building atop Chromium can maintain their own forks of the core rendering engine, but that is a very heavy burden indeed, and Google can always decide to move off of Chromium onto their own private fork and leave everybody else on their own.