Are big companies like @Apple , @Google , @facebook slowly destroying the web? The power differential between Big Cos and users is huge. OTOH users vote w/ their actions. These days they are voting for walled content silos and limited creative agency. Is this the future we want?https://twitter.com/slightlylate/status/1189271582021160960 …
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User action is undermined by Apple and Facebook. Both prevent affirmative choice of browser from being meaningful in terms of engine, depriving the ecosystem of healthy competition and undermining what were previously system-wide choices that could improve privacy, security, etc.
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Apple does this through App Store policy. Facebook does this via their busted in-app "browser". The common thread is a silent substitution of user choice for unchangeable defaults that serve to reinforce the unequal power relationship.
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In both cases, changing browsers matters much, much less than it did before. IDK why Mozilla, Brave, and others put up with it.
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It seems to me like the ability to "choose" one's browser no longer matters to many users. I'm not even sure that users distinguish content consumed via a proper browser from e.g., Facebook's browser-like MITM attack.* * Subjective reflection not backed by data / empirical study
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Google has the reach and the resources to carry the web. But, Android apps have historically been in contention with web content over user engagement. This may have spurred healthy evolution in web capabilities at times, but it also creates weird organizational dynamics.
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Talking about the small impact of the residual consequences of the web having been suffocated by Apple and Facebook is to let them off the hook and dismiss the ability to recover (which we could, I think).
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I don't want to let anyone off the hook. Facebook and Apple's behavior has been calamitous for the web. And, I want the web (or the spirit of it) recover. But, I don't know what court is going to hold the bad actors to account. It seems like we need to leapfrog them somehow.
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The court of public opinion, if we're lucky.
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