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And since you won't be able to modify web pages, it will also mean the end of customization, either for looks (ie. DarkReader, Stylus), conveniance (ie. Tampermonkey) or accessibility.

The community feedback is... interesting to say the least.

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[-] Star@sopuli.xyz 14 points 1 year ago

I ditched Chrome about a year ago for Edge and just recently switched to Firefox, shouldn't really be concerning as long as there are alternatives.

[-] svahnen@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

This is a bad thing. Google could easily make it so you can't use any of their services like YouTube and Gmail without using their browser.

[-] sevenapples@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 year ago

I believe that even in the current state of affairs they'd be hit with an anti-trust lawsuit if they do that -- plenty of companies who would enjoy hurting Google.

What they can do, however, is make their services run slower on other browsers, as they're already doing.

[-] andruid@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Or take the "agnostic platform" approach and provide incentives for creators and the tools to limit access based on this.

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