▲ 1403 ▼ Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome (arstechnica.com) submitted 2 years ago by teft@startrek.website to c/technology@lemmy.world 356 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] DrDeadCrash@programming.dev 30 points 2 years ago (2 children) Exactly, we've seen this previously with Internet explorer. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] warmaster@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 child) And Netscape before that, it had reached 90% market share. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] DrDeadCrash@programming.dev 11 points 2 years ago You're missing the point. Netscape implemented the html standard, they didn't introduce new, proprietary "features" to gain that market share. permalink fedilink source parent [+] mind@lemmy.world -2 points 2 years ago* (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] DrDeadCrash@programming.dev 16 points 2 years ago (1 child) There are two things to consider here: Adherence to Standards 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] oyenyaaow@lemmy.zip 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] warmaster@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 child) And Netscape before that, it had reached 90% market share. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] DrDeadCrash@programming.dev 11 points 2 years ago You're missing the point. Netscape implemented the html standard, they didn't introduce new, proprietary "features" to gain that market share. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] DrDeadCrash@programming.dev 11 points 2 years ago You're missing the point. Netscape implemented the html standard, they didn't introduce new, proprietary "features" to gain that market share. permalink fedilink source parent
[+] mind@lemmy.world -2 points 2 years ago* (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] DrDeadCrash@programming.dev 16 points 2 years ago (1 child) There are two things to consider here: Adherence to Standards 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] oyenyaaow@lemmy.zip 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] DrDeadCrash@programming.dev 16 points 2 years ago (1 child) There are two things to consider here: Adherence to Standards 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] oyenyaaow@lemmy.zip 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] oyenyaaow@lemmy.zip 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. permalink fedilink source parent