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Comment by zaxomi | Hacker News Reader

Just wait, soon Google will announce that HTML is deprecated.

AMP and Chrome are Google's HTML "embrace, extend, extinguish". In twenty years the web will be nothing but silos and ad funnels.

Google is doing what Bill Gates wished Ballmer would have done. Thankfully the Justice Department stepped in to save the fledgling web. Will they be willing to do so to save it this time around?

Google needs to be forced to abandon Chrome and AMP.

Google took what MS did and made it absurd. Chrome is essentially adware, they just hide it too well. And Google is no longer a positive actor in our internet.

Google does a lot of things. Some negative some positive. Personally I am pretty concerned about the near monopoly that chrome has. However they have had an extremely positive impact on (for example) the security of web PKI infrastructure. I find it hard to call them not a positive actor on the internet, when they are one of the more responsible parties for the internet being secure from surveillance - a huge boon to the health of the internet.

I'm more worried about cross business optimization than single products like chrome.

Android is way more nefarious than a web browser. And they give it away for free to device manufacturers. I almost wish for the old days where everyone had their own OS, monoculture is terrifying.

Google recommends that developers use AMP instead.

I rather apply to Google and get rejected, for the experience, than even considering AMP.

Soon we will have only Chrome developer job ads, and the anti-IE 6 that drank the "Do no evil look aid" are the ones to blame.

If this take care of JavaScript together, I'll not be so mad.

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