Comment by yuriko_boyko
5 years ago
This. Why is there an implicit agreement that okay Google is the gatekeeper. It shouldn't be. The internet did not appoint Google as the gatekeeper.
5 years ago
This. Why is there an implicit agreement that okay Google is the gatekeeper. It shouldn't be. The internet did not appoint Google as the gatekeeper.
>The internet did not appoint Google as the gatekeeper.
Uh, it kind of did, when internet-savvy early adopters (and developers) convinced all their friends, then family, then acquaintances, to switch to Chrome a decade ago.
I know there's probably a very large number of FOSS-only types on this site who would disagree with that assessment, and claim that they've always been in the Firefox camp, but the sheer market share of chrome clearly shows that they are the minority.
Everyone switched to chrome because they were tired of IE having too much power and not conforming to standards. Nowadays web devs often build chrome-first, using chromium-only features, and the shoe has almost migrated to the other foot.
> Why is there an implicit agreement that okay Google is the gatekeeper.
Because they run a popular browser and don't want their users getting scammed?
For each tech savvy person mad about this, there's 10 non-tech-savvy people completely oblivious that could get scammed by phishing sites we'd consider obvious.
Sure, they should do a better job, but that blacklist is probably millions of websites big at this point. It's the kind of thing where a perfect job is essentially impossible, and the scale means that even doing a decent job is going to be extremely difficult.