Google’s Chrome becomes web ‘gatekeeper’ and rivals complain

mood · May 28, 2019

Google’s Chrome becomes web ‘gatekeeper’ and rivals complain
May 28, 2019
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/googles-chrome-becomes-web-gatekeeper-and-rivals-complain/

“Whatever Chrome does is what the standard is, everyone else has to follow,” said Andreas Gal, the former chief technology officer of Mozilla.
“We take it seriously, the responsibility of being good stewards of the web,” said Darin Fisher, a vice president of engineering on the Chrome team. Google’s business relies on the web working for as many people as possible, so the company doesn’t have an interest in squashing competition, he said.

Even if it isn’t trying to sabotage competing browsers, Google has a financial motivation to dominate the market, Gal said. He now works at Apple Inc. after selling his startup Silk Labs to the iPhone maker in 2018.

“In the past there were these three, four major players with somewhat equivalent share between Microsoft and Google and Mozilla and Apple and nobody had this very clear advantage,” he said.

“Today, especially in the desktop space, Google is definitely a monopolist.”
That dominance means Google sets the standard for what the internet is supposed to be. And in that vision, advertising and user data collection are the defaults.
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