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Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 65 points 2 years ago (1 child)

There is an issue with monoculture of rendering engines. Developers assume every browser have the same things implemented and start to build around this assumption. Also Google can dictate how the web looks like.

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  • [–] 30 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Exactly, we've seen this previously with Internet explorer.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    There are two things to consider here:

    1. Adherence to Standards
    2. Creating artificial "feature" based defacto standards

    Chrome offers adherence to standards as one of their features. But it also introduces new features that look like standards, meant to increase profits for the parent company.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Chrome offers adherence to standards as one of their features. But it also introduces new features that look like standards, meant to increase profits for the parent company.

    VB.Net was exactly that. Difference being Microsoft's interest was locking companies and governments onto Microsoft's enterprise products vs Google's user tracking. Easy, quick internal web app put together in half a day? Would never work right on Netscape. It takes work to make them work to standards.

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