Post #1365425
2022-12-16 20:21 UTC
@slightlyoff @Edent My mental model is more like: use browser+OS to boost search, use search+OS to boost browser. This is evidently a very problematic market structure.
I don't think that it's Google's doing, but W3C isn't doing its job when it's not working on addressing this problem.
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@slightlyoff@toot.cafe 2022-12-16 20:34
@robin @Edent: even if you have the right problem in mind, you're fixating on absolutely the most impotent potential solution. You need a market fix, not a consensus-process fix
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@abr@mastodon.cloud 2022-12-16 20:38
@robin @slightlyoff @Edent If I read Alex's point correctly, it's more along the lines of: if the Chrome team wanted to engage in a bad-faith effort to disempower non-browser-makers, they'd just say "fuck it," abandon W3C participation altogether, and implement what they want in Chrome, which has enough market share to unilaterally create de facto standards.