Hacker News Reader

Instead of using the nicely standardized thing called http and web browsers.

...of which Google effectively controls the standard because they have a majority of browser usage.

And will continue to do so because anyone who wants to create a new browser will be locked out of supporting EME by Google as we've already seen happen a couple times. Then once they get rid of the address bar and URLs, the only way to find anything on the web will be through a search which Google happens to also dominate in.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com