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If the users prefer Safari they can keep using it, no?

“This website only works on Chrome.” will be the new "Best viewed in Interet Explorer"

They can run both Chrome and Safari?

You can also list/lookup businesses on Facebook and eg Bebo, but factors that run contrary to user desire and performative obtuseness remove utility from one over time.

"performative obtuseness"?

I do not understand what you are saying.

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Ah, I think I get it. You're saying that Chrome would beat Safari if they were both available?

Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

You’re capable of more, we’re capable of more, this entire thread of yours is beneath us all.

Eh? I did my best to understand what you wrote. I honestly found your language difficult to parse.

This is obviously a complex topic with a lot of strongly held views. For me personally it's a rare case where I haven't yet developed firm views of my own.

FWIW, I'm not particularly happy with the way this sub-thread has gone, but I found it stimulating at least. YMMV.

Firefox works just fine so stop with this dumb unfounded hyperbole.

My goodness, the cognative dissonance is dumbfounding.

So is the unsubstantiated FUD.

Spoken by people who want to eliminate competition of richest corporation on the planet because they're apparently not capable of building a competitive product (despite being the Best at Everything and being able to shove down authentication APIs and payment systems down everyones throat).

The EU is going after Google too. They might require Google to stop adding so many new features to Chrome so Safari and Firefox can catch up. Though would be a very tricky situation

> They might require Google to stop adding so many new features to Chrome so Safari and Firefox can catch up

I'm genuinely not sure if this is satire or not.

It's a well known problem. Chrome pushes tons of features into "web standards" since they have disproportionate power in the space, and then developers use the features because they are "web standards", and now there are websites that only support Chrome.

Chrome is becoming the new Internet Explorer. They are adding features the marketers want regardless if it is good for privacy or other ecosystems. We are already seeing websites and services that only work correctly in Chrome. Safari is the only viable competition.

> Chrome is becoming the new Internet Explorer. They are adding features the marketers want regardless if it is good for privacy or other ecosystems. We are already seeing websites and services that only work correctly in Chrome.

Okay. Granted. So what? IE died.

> Safari is the only viable competition.

Is it? It seems to me that it's not competing with Chrome if you can't run Chrome on your iPhone.

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