[schmuckonwheels]

It's more about when Google assumed full control of the cloud, the browser, the OS, and everything in between they self-appointed themselves as the unelected standards board of the Internet, and forced everyone else to follow their whims and timelines. Some of which are completely insane.

[Fogest]

What are the policies you view as "completely insane"? I have some I disagree with like how they've handled things like Manifest v3 in the browsers, however there are still alternatives like Firefox anyway. However I think in terms of web standards some of the things they have pushed are also helpful. It's been much nicer having a much more consistent web browsing experience with less things like "You must use Internet Explorer on this site".

I feel like web browser and website standards are one of the main areas Google has a lot more control of policies. Is there somewhere else they have much control of for standards?

[duskdozer]

>It's been much nicer having a much more consistent web browsing experience with less things like "You must use Internet Explorer on this site".

What browser do you use?

Because I've definitely run into this but s/ie/chrome/ but with no helpful message. You just have to guess that that's why it's broken

[lmz]

Re: the IE thing. Only Apple's insistence on Safari in iOS is stopping sites from basically being chrome only.

[solarkraft]

And you‘re implying making Windows networks less insecure is completely insane?