Comment by Suppafly
6 months ago
>... but other people remember that in the time since, that entire Microsoft monopoly fiasco is held up as an example of bad prosecution, and we don't go after companies like that anymore.
This, but also, I still don't see anyone posting a compelling reason why I should care about this issue. The government and I don't necessarily have the same interests. Personally I don't care that google gives their own browser more access to my computer when I use google services, and if it improves my experience, I actually want that to be the case.
The bulk of the complaints about this just seem to be tattletale behavior you see from children, not any thought out complaints based upon an actual harm.
The actual harm is that other companies can't use that additional access. If they could they might be offering better products than Google to me and you. You might not care about better products, but I (and probably many people on this post) do.
Except allowing other companies to have that access results in a huge loss of security. I trust google enough to install their browser, they already do what they want with my computer, I don't really want to evaluate whether or not I trust every other random website to have that access or trust that they'll continue to be trustworthy at some random point in the future.