A group of Google engineers has proposed a new Web API that threatens to uproot the work of apps and browsers if they interfere with its ad business. Will the open Web survive?
I think that you miss the most powerful point: Google will penalize in the searches all the websites that will not implement the new function, so every single business will implement it straight away!
Sure do but unless Google gets really hurt (like 40% of their income) they’ll take the slap on their wrist change it a bit and continue on.
Firefox makes most of it’s income (to pay staff and whatnot) is coming straight from Google. Why? So (IMHO) Google can go up to curt and say “Well we aren’t a monopole. Firefox is there and we even pay them”.
Google could just stop paying them at any time, they’ve got that biggest slice of the browser cake after all.
i don’t see Cloudflare collaborating on this one. They believe really strongly in the open web. That’s the whole reason they do what they do for free for so many sites.
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I think that you miss the most powerful point: Google will penalize in the searches all the websites that will not implement the new function, so every single business will implement it straight away!
Aren’t there any laws that could prevent such new features that will clearly increase an already existing quasi monopole?
Sure do but unless Google gets really hurt (like 40% of their income) they’ll take the slap on their wrist change it a bit and continue on.
Firefox makes most of it’s income (to pay staff and whatnot) is coming straight from Google. Why? So (IMHO) Google can go up to curt and say “Well we aren’t a monopole. Firefox is there and we even pay them”.
Google could just stop paying them at any time, they’ve got that biggest slice of the browser cake after all.
i don’t see Cloudflare collaborating on this one. They believe really strongly in the open web. That’s the whole reason they do what they do for free for so many sites.
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