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0 pointscarlosjobim2y ago0 comments

Google's control of the internet is exaggerated. Amazon is not dependent on any web browser to reach clients, they can just launch their own app and be done. And yes, they can do it all platforms.

How is Instagram dependent on whatever Google decides? How is Facebook, TikTok and Snapchat? How are streaming platforms dependent on Chrome? Big businesses with a ton of users easily launch their own apps to sidestep Chrome. And if Chrome makes fundamental breaks of HTML and CSS, then most of the internet is going to be broken in Chrome.

If your bank website stops working in Chrome, they're not going to change their website. They're going to ask you to install another browser.

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BlueTemplar2y ago

The biggest companies might be immune, but anyone else's incentive is quite high to use Chromium (Electron) to build that app on.

JTatts2y ago

I can guarantee that if a bank website stops working in Chrome they will be instantly working around the clock to fix the website!

carlosjobimOP2y ago

Or not? I remember when banks required you to have IE long after nobody was using IE. I remember when banks showed an alert against using Safari long after it became the most common mobile browser. Banks also have their own apps and are not dependent on Chrome.

bigfudge2y ago

That was in a time when expectations were low and all the banks were pretty equally crap. There are better choices now, and even my mum would be pissed off of her bank website didn’t work in her current browser.

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