Post #2751686

2025-08-18 17:59 UTC

I've updated my article on #Google killing the #openWeb https://wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia/google-killing-open-web/ with some additional moments I had forgotten or didn't know about (thanks to the people who pointed those out to me), and a few additional remarks in an afterword. I also rediscovered how much of this I had actually predicted in 2013, when classic Opera died.

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@oblomov@sociale.network 2025-08-19 11:15

One more update, with a mention of how the renaming of the Google chatbot from Bard to #Gemini is now shadowing the #GeminiProtocol. I've also added a #nameAndShame section gather with the names of the (known) #Google engineers responsible for the actions through the company is steamrolling the #openWeb This is public information, BTW, so don't even bother asking me to take it down. 🖕 https://wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia/google-killing-open-web/ Attached also a cutesy image just for them. #tuttoInMedicine

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@picofarad@noauthority.social 2025-08-18 20:06

@oblomov@sociale.network i will ride firefox into the burning ashes of the web, i don't care, i won't ever use chrome (last time was probably around 2013, now that it's mentioned.) i suppose i could use some other browser for most of my browsing, as it's nearly all text based

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@yncke@comicscamp.club 2025-08-31 09:47

@oblomov@sociale.network That was an interesting read, thank you! (Also: ooh, thats why my little experiment with xslt on my rss feed failed so miserably: it was Firefox... :/ )

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@xurxo@mastodon.social 2025-09-06 08:56

@oblomov@sociale.network @igalia@floss.social

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