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    • Michaelmitchell@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Except it doesn’t work and no corporation does it any more because it doesn’t. Look at the two main examples, internet browsers and email. Both of them remain open platforms with viable foss alternatives because google knows that doing this sort of stuff will get them in trouble with anti-trust suits.

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        1 year ago

        You know chrome is basically the only actual browser, right? everything but Firefox is a chrome skin.

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            Browser Market Share Worldwide - June 2023

            Chrome 62.55% (Chromium engine)
            Safari 20.5% (Webkit engine)
            Edge 5.28% (Chromium engine)
            Opera 3.22% (Chromium engine)
            Firefox 2.8% (Quantum Engine)
            Samsung Internet 2.38% (Chromium engine)
            https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share#

            While other browsers technically exist, it is foolish to think that web browsers are a thriving diverse ecosystem right now, when 74% of all web-browsing is done using a Chrome-based browser. With their influence, if Google decided to start forcing changes on how websites function on a technical level, they could absolutely do that with little to stop it;- what are websites going to do, alienate a supermajority of their users?- And that is why people are so worried about things like Threads, because once a single company has supermajority control of a market, they can use that control as a weapon to get what they want.

            I say this as an avid Firefox user: Firefox is niche. And the only reason Safari has 20% is because it is integrated with apple products, if it weren’t for that, Chrome and Chrome-reskins would effectively be the only option.