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Google haven't built enough trust to say "here's something we want to do that could have huge negative consequencies, but trust us".

>>robbie+(OP)
They did. Then they lost it.

You can't get that back.

>>Fillig+I2
What event are you referring to? Android? Chrome? Search?

>>edg500+e4
"Yes."

>>edg500+e4
Many different things, big and small, that shows that their principles are to make the maximum amount of money possible at every given moment, rather than thinking about long term consequencies or any moral values.

One extremely small example from the last 60 minutes of my life is that many Google workspace products don't work very well in non-Chrome browsers. I have to switch from Firefox to Chrome whenever I call someone in Google Meet, because the system load is higher and some features are not supported (e.g. visual effects like background blurring). I'm skeptical that these features can't be done in Firefox, but when you try to use them you get a warning to use a supported browser.

I dug into this a little more and they have a page https://support.google.com/meet/answer/10058482?hl=en-GB&exp... which asks you to check for WebGL support, without a major performance caveat, and link to https://webglreport.com/?v=2

On Firefox on a M2 mac, I see "Major Performance Caveat: No".