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 easiest and best fix for this is antitrust. Splitting Chrome off from Google would remove the ineradicable tension of funding secure, private browser development with an extractive surveillance business model.
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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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You aren't wrong - the entire industry is a completely mess. But if you break it off without having a clue about this, then it'll just die and that doesn't help anything.
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Well, to refute my own argument, at least that would stop letting Google use it to take over.
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It’s a good question: I assume it’s the Firefox model. But what it means is that Google Search, Google web apps, and the ex-Google browser all make their decisions based on market pressure, not based on back-channel coordination.
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If that’s not Pinboard’s expectation about what would happen, I hope he’ll correct me, because I had the same question, and this is all I could come up with.
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I'm not sure I understand the question; can you restate it?
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Sure, short version is: do you think there’s a business mode for an independent chrome that sustains similar levels of engineering effort as it has today? If so, what?
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Not without catching up on the industry; my knowledge of the business of browsers is a few years out of date. The last model I remember seeming to work well was Mozilla taking lots of money to be the default search engine. I'd love to hear what others who know more think
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From the outside, it seems to me as if the Mozilla model is struggling at least in part since keeping up with Chrome/supporting Google properties as well as Chrome is such a huge part of the benchmark of success for a modern browser.
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Mozilla has a bunch of intersecting pathologies right now, so it's hard to draw a clean lesson from them. If I can rephrase your point as Google's anticompetitive deep integration of its properties with Chrome being harmful to rivals, then I absolutely agree
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