John HarrisWe managed to get the world off of Internet Explorer, and it had the OS maker behind it. We can do it again with Chrome.
Darrin West@rodneylives My instinct is Google will try to leverage its dominance of video (YouTube) to frog-boil a lot of users about fascist-Chrome. By making Firefox and Duck Duck Go etc. unpleasant. An alternative video platform that maybe even pays content providers better, would go a long ways to disarming the monopoly.
@obviousdwest That we're even considering that they might do that indicates just how far they've fallen from the idealism of its early years, which is basically the reason it has managed to grow so large.
Richfletcher@rodneylives @obviousdwest well not really. Just because YOU are considering it doesn’t indicate how far they’ve fallen at all. It’s your opinion, that’s all. Use it or don’t. That’s the choice.
@Richfletcher @obviousdwest That isn't even an argument, it's just a dressed-up form of "You're wrong!"
@rodneylives @obviousdwest no it’s not. It’s just that making an observation based on your opinion in one sentence, and then solidifying that into fact in the next is a weird way to come to a conclusion. I don’t care if you’re right or wrong to be fair - I’m lucky enough to not be too reliant on browser to get my work done.