• whatsarefoogee@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    They arent being altruistic. Having their browser engine implementation being dominant gives them an incredible amount of pull in the space of web standards and their adoption.

    Some good has come out of this and the web has been advancing rapidly, but they have abused it plenty of times as well.

    • Redcedar@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      I feel like we are all of the same opinions on this but somehow missing each other lol. Very obviously, Google has had a massive influence on technology and the internet as a whole. As you stated, there have been plenty of abuses of that power in the past, most commonly noted with privacy concerns and data collection. Hence, how I arrived at my original position with regards to Brave as a browser.