It pushes proprietary features, from what I know it starts enforcing some analytics/ads without possibility to block it out and there are other thing too, but since I’m not really an user I don’t track them deeply.
Based on my personal experiences with IE, ActiveX, Adobe Flash and not being able to fill my taxes without Microsoft license (that was around 800$ back then for me not adjusted for inflation) I am afraid the same will happen with Chrome once it gets enough ground.
“Hey, sorry but we can’t sell you toothbrush because you’re using Safari/Firefox/Vivaldi/whatever. Please switch to Chrome and continue with your tracked and dissected purchase route.”
Is there any other anti-Chrome bastion than iOS’ Safari?
Old E2E runner installed Google Chrome on my machine (didn’t even ask but that’s user space on dev machine so whatever) which grew into my MacOS machine. It cannot run in background but there is another daemon that constantly updates it. Multiple times a day I get notification that new service has been installed to run in background.
I’m not sure if that’s something I want to fight for.
Then we could possibly have new, from-scratch, independent browser engines that could compete with the status quo.
No more porn. No more innovative experiments. No more kids making dumb little things to learn programming. No more freedom to set your own app policies.
The web is the only platform keeping user and dev freedom alive and it's imperative that hackers like us fight for it.
The following things have been pushed and enabled by a single web ad agency with complete disregard to concerns and objections: WebUSB, WebBluetooth, WebSerial, WebMIDI. There are countless others.
The web hasn't been neutral for a very long time. Google believes the web is it's own playground now.