This situation—a single company controlling web standards—is what everyone freaked out about in the Windows 95 era, but the emergence of Google as de facto regulatory authority for the web doesn't seem to rankle people as much as it should.https://twitter.com/migueldeicaza/status/1293623047518334977 …
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The AMP standard in particular is a golden example why you don't want Google regulating the web. It was both highly anticompetitive and sincerely defended on the technical merits by engineers indignant that you could ever accuse them of impure motives.
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The fact that one company controls email, half the mobile phone OS market, monopolizes search, has a duopoly in online advertising (including political advertising in the one country with significant potential regulatory authority) and killed Reader is a crisis for the open web.
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What's the business model for the Chrome business if it's split off?
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If finding a business model other than "loss-leader for monopolist" for a piece of software used by billions of people is an intractable problem, that in itself is a more scathing indictment of the entire industry than anything I could come up with
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It is open source, not sure this is the issue that has to be addressed. But we are heading to a single engine world, and perhaps the answer to that question is “that’s ok, as long as it is open”
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Microsoft with IE6 in 2001 is very different than Google with Chrome in 2020. Google sees Chrome as a mechanism to improve its online services, something to be actively developed. Increasingly, web=Chrome, but Google is not neglecting Chrome thus far at least.
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Mozilla basically is the arms-length browser division of Google. How much has Google shoveled into Mozilla's crack-and-hookers fund over the years? Two billion dollars, more or less?
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Genuine question: If you forced Google to divest of Chrome via antitrust action, who would pay to continue developing Chromium?
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That's easy, we should give that responsibility to a non-profit, or at least a not-for-profit, who can develop web browsers and open source software!
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that would also be good from a WebPKI root store program point of view tbh, with google folks in the mozilla program
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