It was an excellent product with a ravenous appetite for market share, and its noisy focus on speed and security forced its rivals to take notice and compete on the same terms. Google Chrome first appeared in 2008 and rapidly established itself as a browser that couldn't be ignored, thanks to some catchy marketing on Google's massive advertising platform. ![]() ![]() But it might also be the last, best hope for browser privacy we have. It's imperfect, for sure, and its glacial pace of development might even be holding us all up, as Scott Gilbertson thoughtfully illustrated in a recent article on The Register. This time Google has its hands on the wheel, and it's our privacy in the back seat, being taken for a ride.Ĭhrome needs a counterweight and, thankfully, it still has one in Apple's Safari browser. Last time it was Microsoft in the driver's seat, and open standards and security were left tumbling about in the rear without a seat belt. We've been there before and history suggests it's bad news. ![]() And even if you prefer a different browser, there's a good chance that you're using something that's based on Google Chrome, such as Edge, Vivaldi, Chromium, Brave, or Opera.Īfter a decade and and a half of relatively healthy competition between vendors, the World Wide Web is trending towards a browser monoculture. There's a good chance-roughly one in seven-that it's Google Chrome.
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