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> The best thing for long term browser compatibility is focusing resources into Blink. That’s what makes Google more dominant, and if you think that’s a good i

by latexr 9d ago

> The best thing for long term browser compatibility is focusing resources into Blink. That’s what makes Google more dominant, and if you think that’s a good idea you should really put down your LLM and go read up on a bit of history. Do you want to live in a world where a single company controls your access to the web? Are you eager to navigate through ad pages with a little bit of web? To have even more of your data mined? Browser diversity may be a bit annoying for developers, but it is good for users, and developers are users too. When there’s a lack of diversity, everyone but the dominant player is squeezed.

charcircuit 9d ago
Google's dominance comes from market share not from owning upstream. If a different fork took 90% market share that fork would have the dominance and power.
- samus 9d ago
  And that market share is maintained by integration with Android and low-key sabotage of others browsers, especially Firefox. Similar to how Microsoft maintained its monopoly decades ago.
  - charcircuit 9d ago
    Whether a new browser uses a brand new engine or not that doesn't stop Chrome being integrated with Android.
    - samus 8d ago
      The argument was not about stopping Chrome from becoming integrated into Android.
- latexr 9d ago
  > If a different fork took 90% That can only happen if we don’t all focus resources on Blink, which is the point. By definition, we can only have other engines if diversity is a thing. The problem isn’t specifically Google (though they are a problem), but any one individual company having all the power.
  - charcircuit 9d ago
    >That can only happen if we don’t all focus resources on Blink Why? What's fundamentally stopping Edge market share from going to 90% that would go away if they switched back to their own browser engine? >but any one individual company having all the power. Open source means that anyone can make any change at any time. Google doesn't have all the power over what a fork does. A fork is still in full control.

by latexr 9d ago

charcircuit 9d ago

Google's dominance comes from market share not from owning upstream. If a different fork took 90% market share that fork would have the dominance and power.

samus 9d ago
And that market share is maintained by integration with Android and low-key sabotage of others browsers, especially Firefox. Similar to how Microsoft maintained its monopoly decades ago.
- charcircuit 9d ago
  Whether a new browser uses a brand new engine or not that doesn't stop Chrome being integrated with Android.
  - samus 8d ago
    The argument was not about stopping Chrome from becoming integrated into Android.
latexr 9d ago
> If a different fork took 90% That can only happen if we don’t all focus resources on Blink, which is the point. By definition, we can only have other engines if diversity is a thing. The problem isn’t specifically Google (though they are a problem), but any one individual company having all the power.
- charcircuit 9d ago
  >That can only happen if we don’t all focus resources on Blink Why? What's fundamentally stopping Edge market share from going to 90% that would go away if they switched back to their own browser engine? >but any one individual company having all the power. Open source means that anyone can make any change at any time. Google doesn't have all the power over what a fork does. A fork is still in full control.