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google did play this long game pretty well... get mozilla on-board with webextensions format. get microsoft to adopt chromium for its own browser. use every trick in the book, legal or not, to gain marketshare. then start the rug pull. first: neuter the adblockers (we are here), next (and there will be a 'next') will be killing ad or content blockers and manipulators completely.
See what they don't understand is that I, and many people like me, hate watching ads more than anything, and can, and will, stop using the entire Internet if it's all just ads. YouTube is already so shitty that it's basically already there, and I stopped paying for it and because it's so shitty now, hardly watch YouTube, trending quickly to zero.
Congratulations, Google. You're ruining everything.
I think next step would be forcing chromium-only web development so FF or any other own-engine browser would not work properly on most common sites. That'll kill other browsers in an instant.
It kind of works already, seeing that a few complain about FF not working properly on some sites. Also, FF cant catch up with some features GC has like HID support. Anything which is not chromium is way behind and cant catch up. We are in a desperate need of something that is really good and is 3rd party (preferably OSS) to counter browser market monopoly. It is not monopoly yet, but damn it is on the edge.
USB through the browser is deliberately not added to Firefox
Yeah, people call me stupid, but I have been complaining for a while about Google using its market power to bully standards that only benefit itself.
The one I got flac a lot for was the https thing. Like yes, https is good, but it also ads an often unneeded layer of complexity for small time web stuff. It also makes it slight a pain for local stuff since you can't https an IP, it needs a domain.
On top of that, it harms one of Google's main ad/tracking xompetitors, ISPs. Now, we can debate if tracking is good or not (its really not), but beside that point, Google has a zillion other ways to track you, ISPs, less so, they are not embedding tracking pixels and shit or backdooring your browser history. And Google gets to kneecap them by penalising anyone not using https.
They tried to do the same thing to other competition by pushing to kill cookies, but backed off. Once again, is tracking good or bad? Not the debate here. But Google tracks you other ways, many of their competitors in the ad space use cookies. Or track traffix on their networks (ISPs).
Tracking good or bad is debatable, but lack of competition in pretty much anyspace is bad.
HID support? We browsing the web with a game controller now?
You can flash a firmware of your phone though google chrome if you want. GrapheneOS even suggests to do it this way.
You can visit controller test websites and check your controllers.
Not sure about this one but technically you can play games through game streaming services in your browser. No additional software needed.
HID API is a cool feature ngl. But I still use FF only.
Yech. Seems like this should be a feature of the OS.
I prefer a WebUI configuration app for mice, controllers, and other devices with firmware-level settings to installed crapware that only runs on Windows (and poorly). I use Ungoogled Chromium exclusively for the HID webapps. It's a neat part of the "web app framework" side of the modern browser that is almost totally irrelevant to the "browser" side.
They already tried that!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Environment_Integrity
Fortunately, they jumped the gun on it, and it was shut down ... for now anyway, but yeah they've clearly shown their intentions.