<story><title>Chrome to take No. 2 browser spot from Firefox</title><url>http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9220396/Chrome_poised_to_take_No._2_browser_spot_from_Firefox</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>KevinMS</author><text>Doesn&apos;t it bother anybody that Chrome is made by ad company?&lt;p&gt;The way I see it, if everybody started using ad blockers like I do, google would implode almost instantly.  So how would they combat that?  Control the platform for viewing the web and be positioned to kill ad blockers if it ever became a problem.&lt;p&gt;Would you buy a DVR controlled by a television network?  That would be insane, as soon as DVRs ate too much into their revenues they would just
kill the skipping feature.&lt;p&gt;But because of the abundance of chrome fanboys, this is just what is happening, and everybody is looking the other way.&lt;p&gt;A little while ago we had a big company doing everything they could to control the &quot;personal computer&quot; platform, even evil things, and illegal things, and now there&apos;s another company trying to control the internet as a platform and a lot of you hackers are eating it up, I&apos;m just baffled.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chalst</author><text>&lt;i&gt;Doesn&apos;t it bother anybody&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;A little, but do be aware that (i) Mozilla is 83% financed [&lt;i&gt;] by search royalties from that same ad company, and (ii) Chromium has a somewhat independent developer community&lt;p&gt;Making money from ads is also not evil: you are probably served by a local newspaper which is probably both good for your neighbourhood and financed mostly or entirely by ads.  This stream of revenue comes with conflicts of interest, but these can be handled better or worse.  I think Google has done pretty well in this; at least my criticisms of Google mostly do not lie here.&lt;p&gt;[&lt;/i&gt;] &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.extremetech.com/internet/92558-how-browsers-make-money-or-why-google-needs-firefox?print&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.extremetech.com/internet/92558-how-browsers-make-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Chrome to take No. 2 browser spot from Firefox</title><url>http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9220396/Chrome_poised_to_take_No._2_browser_spot_from_Firefox</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>KevinMS</author><text>Doesn&apos;t it bother anybody that Chrome is made by ad company?&lt;p&gt;The way I see it, if everybody started using ad blockers like I do, google would implode almost instantly.  So how would they combat that?  Control the platform for viewing the web and be positioned to kill ad blockers if it ever became a problem.&lt;p&gt;Would you buy a DVR controlled by a television network?  That would be insane, as soon as DVRs ate too much into their revenues they would just
kill the skipping feature.&lt;p&gt;But because of the abundance of chrome fanboys, this is just what is happening, and everybody is looking the other way.&lt;p&gt;A little while ago we had a big company doing everything they could to control the &quot;personal computer&quot; platform, even evil things, and illegal things, and now there&apos;s another company trying to control the internet as a platform and a lot of you hackers are eating it up, I&apos;m just baffled.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gst</author><text>I don&apos;t care at all.&lt;p&gt;If google does something like that it wouldn&apos;t take long until someone forks Chrome.</text></comment>