So, Chrome's "web standard" Prompt API:

[clutch_lever@mastodon.social]

@jaffathecake I've been saying chrome is the new ie for years...

[jaffathecake@mastodon.social]

@joshhunt if there is then they failed to show it. They posted a couple of links, including a survey about something else.

[bit@ohai.social]

@jaffathecake

Alternatives are available.
https://www.firefox.com

[thestonedonkey@beige.party]

@bit I switched to it last year and not had any issues.  It's a great alternative if your tired of all the nonsense Chrome keeps rolling out.

[raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie]

@jaffathecake
Amazon, Google, Apple, Musk etc show the huge flaw in allowing shares as collateral for loans as "payment" for a takeover, often described as a merger.

Obscene Capitalism.

List of mergers and acquisitions by Amazon - Wikipedia

(en.wikipedia.org)

List of mergers and acquisitions by Alphabet - Wikipedia

(en.wikipedia.org)

List of mergers and acquisitions by Apple - Wikipedia

(en.wikipedia.org)

Musk is rich by background, luck & stupidity of other people, partly Peter Thiel.

Business career of Elon Musk - Wikipedia

(en.wikipedia.org)

Paid Tesla to claim he was a founder.

[lemgandi@mastodon.social]

@jaffathecake Internal politics trumps external reactions every time.

I am currently using waterfox, a Clean fork of Firefox ( no AI features, kill switch or no )

[thecatburgler@mastodon.social]

@phl @jaffathecake @nachtfunke

Ya know they say threes a crowd

[simonzerafa@infosec.exchange]

@jaffathecake

Given the other shit that Google is shipping the moment, their browser won't be going onto any system that doesn't absolutely need it.

[thecatburgler@mastodon.social]

@jaffathecake

Google is on the boycott list.
They’re too big for anyone’s good & are tied in with the two governments that care more about big brother surveillance and holy wars than their people.

I like ecosia (they plant trees for each search)
Brave and Firefox are cool too

[ragectl@hachyderm.io]

@nachtfunke @jaffathecake oh that's easy developers needed to keep using and supporting Firefox because open internet matters more than anything else.

Sadly, majority of developers failed at that, just like they did with Internet Exploder.

[yoasif@mastodon.social]

@jaffathecake Sounds kind of like how #Mozilla pushed ahead with #AI even after your lying polls about the provenance of training data in translations and the multitude of negative comments here and on Mozilla Connect.

Pretty good blind spot for Mozilla - you can only tell when things are bad when your competitors do it.

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[maikel@vmst.io]

@jaffathecake internet explorer from its grave.

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@jaffathecake @joshhunt it's like the XSLT situation in reverse

Google: we want to drop XSLT support

web developers: we really want you to keep XSLT and possibly upgrade support for v3 of the standard so we can use it with JSON too

Google: OK, we've listened to everybody's opinion and nobody wants XSLT so we're dropping it.

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@jaffathecake @joshhunt

(and obviously Mozilla follows suit, because why are they there if not to suck up to the bully)

[platymew@layer8.space]

@yoasif @jaffathecake If the word ends in an s-like phoneme, you're supposed to eschew the s after the apostrophe.

E.g. For Fox' sake!

[yoasif@mastodon.social]

@platymew @jaffathecake MLA and Chicago Manual of Style agree with what I did, at least: https://grammarist.com/punctuation/apostrophe-after-s-rules-and-examples/

[schouten_b@mastodon.social]

@jaffathecake There's a serious question to be asked about whether an engine shipping things which the broader standards community is opposed to can still be considered a standards compliant browser.

[platymew@layer8.space]

@yoasif @jaffathecake Ah, yes, the Bri'ish vs. 'murrican vs. Internet rules of englishing.

[yoasif@mastodon.social]

@Schouten_B @jaffathecake Hasn't that happened before? Who else supported PNaCl?

I think that is kind of an academic question too, unfortunately - most developers seem to care less about whether something is a standard, and more about whether their userbase can access the feature.

[schouten_b@mastodon.social]

@yoasif @jaffathecake Sure, I think the PNaCl objections were of a different, less fundamental nature, but yeah, this is a question I've asked myself more often.

And sure, humans fundamentally look out for number 1 first. You're not wrong, but some do care about standards, I've been considering blocking Chrome on my own sites. Since they aren't commercial anyway and I don't care if people won't switch browsers in order to access them .