hangout_services/thunk.js
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It turns out Google Chrome (via Chromium) includes a default extension which makes extra services available to code running on the `*.google.com` domains - tweeted about today [by Luca Casonato](https://twitter.com/lcasdev/status/1810696257137959018), …
  • IHeartBadCode@kbin.run
    0·
    8 months ago

    Google web services take advantage of an API that only Google knows about.

    Completely unsurprising. Google should have been given the anti-trust treatment long ago. There’s not a saving us because the ones to save us are completely complicit. And people who write independent browsers will be smacked back down by having places like YouTube throttle them.

        • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
          1·
          8 months ago

          Fuck Chromium. Don’t let Google single handedly control how the Internet works. Don’t support Chromium browsers.

          • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            01·
            8 months ago

            Nah. I support Vivaldi. They are not funded by Google like your precious Firefox is and they are very open about using chromium but doing everything they can to clean it up so it doesn’t align with Google’s tyranny. I don’t think it’s fair to lump them in with other chromium browsers. Let me know if you have specific issues with Vivaldi beyond just general Google is bad sentiment.