Google is not really the point. The point is that there’s a single standard. Doesn’t matter who’s it is to me.
> The "fragmentation" you're talking about here is competition though, there isn't really any downside to having a bunch of different popular browsers and the upside is that none of them get to do anything crazy knowing there's no serious alternative so you can't leave.
If this is your opinion then what difference does it make if there’s a monopoly? You can use Firefox or Safari no?
Not to mention chromium is open source. Anyone can fork it, like Brave in FTA. I don’t see any downsides, given that you can disable and features you object to.
An implementation isn't a standard, though... and the concern is that Google are using their dominance here to push more half-baked ideas (some of which they then discard, see HTTP2 Push)
There already was single standard. I think your point is that you want there to be a single implementation. You can't really have that at this point without allowing powerful commercial interests to basically have free reign over what code is executed on your computer.
> If this is your opinion then what difference does it make if there’s a monopoly?
The argument is against monopoly, even an effective one. Chrome has about 65% market share (88.5% in India), I'd call that an effective monopoly (especially considering all the chromium based browsers). Large enough to dictate how things should be done and people will follow because they have to. It doesn't matter that it is open source, it matters that there is too large of a userbase that decisions fall into the hands of few. It's not like Microsoft's Internet Explorer abused this in the past and we have no precedence or anything...
I guarantee you that this will only lead to a fracturing of the internet, especially considering it is a global network.
> Not to mention chromium is open source. Anyone can fork it, like Brave in FTA.
I don't think you understand what a fork truly means. Blink, the web browser engine used by Chromium is a fork of WebKit. WebKit and Blink are now completely separate browser engines made and maintained by different companies.
Meanwhile, Brave is a skin on top of Chromium. They've patched Chromium to their liking. You can read the first paragraph in the link to confirm this.
People are really underestimating what hard forking a behemoth project like Chromium really means. I don't think anyone besides Microsoft has the capability to do it and they've already given up on that prospect.
> The "fragmentation" you're talking about here is competition though, there isn't really any downside to having a bunch of different popular browsers and the upside is that none of them get to do anything crazy knowing there's no serious alternative so you can't leave.
If this is your opinion then what difference does it make if there’s a monopoly? You can use Firefox or Safari no?
Not to mention chromium is open source. Anyone can fork it, like Brave in FTA. I don’t see any downsides, given that you can disable and features you object to.