Comment by hot_gril
6 months ago
I don't think it's this. Tried a Meet call in Firefox just now. If you click the troubleshooting button, there's a CPU chart greyed out that says "try Chrome to see your CPU usage." Sure enough, in Chrome you can view how much CPU Meet is using, or maybe it's systemwide idk, either way I don't think is available through regular APIs. Edit: Definitely systemwide as confirmed with some `yes` background tasks.
P.S. The naming confusion always comes up. GVC is such a nice clear name.
This seems pretty unequivocal then- they're clearly using this to provide additional functionality to their own applications (at least Meet) that other companies who don't control the browser can't match.
This is not the case. That API is available to any extensions for chrome. Including those made by other companies that don’t control the browser.
Here[0] are the docs for the specific one discussed above, for example.
0. https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference/api/s...
Other extensions, not other websites. This functionality is a feature of the Google Meet website that other video conferencing websites cannot offer.
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Unequivocally, why can’t other video chat companies provide their own browser? They could presumably fork chromium and change a single string (if it’s really just “*.google.com”).
Obviously that’d go nowhere and no one would use it, but I can’t imagine this really matters to any competitor anywhere.
Why stop there? Why can’t other video chat companies provide me their own operating system? A computer?
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