Instead of simply flailing our collective arms around complaining about an evil corporation, has anyone written to the respective competition authorities (such as the FTC in the US or CCI in India) about the potential anticompetitive effects of this proposal?
- ban Google all together in your personal life. No chrome and no excuses. Stop the bullshit or leave this profession. Use startpage, duckduck or whatever for searching.
- develop with and for firefox and friends only, introduce usability problems for chrome
- employ the same tactics as google.
-> Bundle firefox with the software you are distributing.
-> Like google did, remove the competition altogether from the users device.
-> make your npm-module or your website slower in chrome
-> let your customers know that your service for non-chrome users is cheaper. Money motivates.
-> show a popup urging users to download firefox, provide a link to download or page with more explanation.
Tell that you detected that their current chrome has security and privacy risks and that you recommend to take action immediately. Average user is easily scared into action.
-> use as many tricks as you can think of to spoil the well for google.
Destroy search results, fill their storage with /dev/random, whatever your imagination leads you too. You keep telling us you are so smart. Show it.
-> let your customers know that your service for non-chrome users is cheaper. Money motivates.