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Opinion: Chrome is Turning Into the New Internet Explorer 6 (theverge.com)
Tom Warren, writing for The Verge: Chrome now has the type of dominance that Internet Explorer once did, and we're starting to see Google's own apps diverge from supporting web standards much in the same way Microsoft did a decade and a half ago. Whether you blame Google or the often slow moving World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the results have been particularly evident throughout 2017. Google has been at the center of a lot of "works best with Chrome" messages we're starting to see appear on the web. Google Meet, Allo, YouTube TV, Google Earth, and YouTube Studio Beta all block Windows 10's default browser, Microsoft Edge, from accessing them and they all point users to download Chrome instead. Some also block Firefox with messages to download Chrome. Hangouts, Inbox, and AdWords 3 were all in the same boat when they first debuted.
It's led to one developer at Microsoft to describe Google's behavior as a strategic pattern. "When the largest web company in the world blocks out competitors, it smells less like an accident and more like strategy," said a Microsoft developer in a now-deleted tweet. Google also controls the most popular site in the world, and it regularly uses it to push Chrome. If you visit Google.com in a non-Chrome browser you're prompted up to three times if you'd like to download Chrome. Google has also even extended that prompt to take over the entire page at times to really push Chrome in certain regions. Microsoft has been using similar tactics to convince Windows 10 users to stick with Edge. The troubling part for anyone who's invested in an open web is that Google is starting to ignore a principle it championed by making its own services Chrome-only -- even if it's only initially.
It's led to one developer at Microsoft to describe Google's behavior as a strategic pattern. "When the largest web company in the world blocks out competitors, it smells less like an accident and more like strategy," said a Microsoft developer in a now-deleted tweet. Google also controls the most popular site in the world, and it regularly uses it to push Chrome. If you visit Google.com in a non-Chrome browser you're prompted up to three times if you'd like to download Chrome. Google has also even extended that prompt to take over the entire page at times to really push Chrome in certain regions. Microsoft has been using similar tactics to convince Windows 10 users to stick with Edge. The troubling part for anyone who's invested in an open web is that Google is starting to ignore a principle it championed by making its own services Chrome-only -- even if it's only initially.
The only free market, the nomadic system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... Capitalism was built upon slavery, an inherent requirement of capitalism is that people can be starved to death, denied access to resources if they do not conform ie work for others. You are actively denied the ability to work for yourself under capitalism ie hunt and gather the only true version of free economics. If you attempt to hunt and gather you will be imprisoned until the day you die or are simply shot outright. Capitalism is slavery or death.
How successful has capitalism been, hmm, world wars, hundreds of millions dead, mass starvation, global terrorism, all the product of capitalism, ugly indeed. Now no effort required, simply capital, rich means remaining rich, earning an income for nothing other the existing capital, no effort, no contribution to society, simply a big ole fat parasite.
So M$ vs Google, ohh look, one pack of greedy capitalists parasites complaining about the other pack of greedy capitalists parasites, doing what they do because when they do it, it's good for them but when others do it, it's bad for them.
Chaos - everything, everywhere, everywhen