Comment by CursedSilicon

20 hours ago

Ah, the "this doesn't fit my very specific technicality argument"

You know full well what people mean when they say "Chrome"

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vel0city  20 hours ago

> You know full well what people mean when they say "Chrome"

Yeah, Chrome, the web browser made by Google that bugs you to sign in with your Google Account. Most people don't mean Microsoft Edge when you say "Chrome". Do you call Microsoft Edge "Chrome"?

Chrome is a product made by Google that is a web browser. If the argument is Chromium is too interwoven, that's a separate argument.

But even then, what does it mean that "Chromium is a monopoly"? Is Linux a monopoly as well? Why or why not?

Note you haven't actually given me any other ways one would be impacted like I asked. What are the other majorly missing features Chrome pushes that other browsers don't have that most sites require? What else am I missing by not using a non-Chromium-based browser?

  • majorchord  20 hours ago

    > what does it mean that "Chromium is a monopoly"

    As someone else said earlier, it is a monopoly by extending the internet in ways that force users into using their browser engine. Due to market share and Google's prevalence, they have the sway to introduce things that cannot meaningfully be avoided without extreme siloing.

    > What are the other majorly missing features Chrome pushes that other browsers don't have that most sites require?

    This is a different question, please don't move the goalposts.

    • vel0city  20 hours ago

      > by extending the internet in ways that force users into using their browser engine

      And yet after multiple times of me asking you've yet to give me a single real feature lost.

      > This is a different question

      Its literally the thing we're saying is the problem, how is it a different question entirely?!

      You're saying the problem is they're adding features that force Chromium, but asking about which features you're talking about is just bringing up unrelated and different questions.

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