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by echelon
2480 days ago
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I'm extremely worried that once Google disables ad blockers in Chrome, websites will wholesale block any and all non-Chrome browsers. Be it through user agent sniffing, feature detection, or fingerprinting, Firefox simply won't work anymore. The future of the web where Google is in complete control is straight up nightmare fuel. Microsoft in the early 2000s never scared me as much as the future we're headed into does. This won't be IE versus Netscape since websites are no longer served as plain old HTML. They're messy, thick, and impenetrable javascript blobs--not documents. We're not arguing about websites simply not rendering correctly in the less popular browser. This is a battle for the absolute control over information distribution. What do we do to prevent what's happening? Google already shot down XHTML, which was rich with semantics. That was a web written for documents and tools that could query those documents for meaning. Whatever Google has become needs to be dismantled. The ad company can't be the browser company and phone company. It's a perverse alignment of incentives. |
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Well, also since Chrome if open source, cross platform, and standards compliant, and IE was none of those.
And Google (unlike Apple) allows competing browsers, based on modified Chrome code, or entirely different engines.
Soon we will have a good, cross platform Edge browser, thanks to Google, and a menu of browser options in Europe thanks to the EU. (Maybe other countries should push for the same.)
But Chrome if no IE.
And I believe that in Europe they will soon be