Bloomberg recently reported that the complaints about Google Chrome's competitors. Currently, Chrome accounted for 63% + share of the browser market, competitors such as Firefox, Safari, Edge and IE are far behind. Clearly, Google Chrome dominate the way people access to the network.
△ browser market share comparison (Source: StatCounte, data as of April 2019, the same below)
Chrome at the same time far ahead, but also control the development of standards. Major browsers such as Opera and Edge are now switch to the open source project Chromium Google maintained - this creates a snowball effect, because few developers and then a non-Chrome / Chromium browser optimized, which in turn prompted browser developers to switch to Chromium. Chrome has become the gatekeeper of the Internet.
Former Mozilla CTO Andreas Gal said, Chrome did what standard is equivalent to what has been done, others must follow. Gal had publicly complained about Google products will not work on Firefox: After Google Docs or Gmail to update these services suddenly can not run on Firefox. And during this time Google repaired, the user will feel the problem is Firefox.
Some niche browser also encountered similar problems. Do good in the privacy Vivaldi browser, also encountered a problem and Gmai l Docs and other Google services does not work properly, Google alerts a browser that is not optimized for the service, it is recommended to use Chrome. Netflix users when there's Brave browser to access Netflix's official website, has encountered a problem the browser to crash. Brave team spent more than two weeks to fix the problem, and all this just because Google updated the way Netflix use of Widevine.
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浏览器 Metastream 的开发者 Maddock 也表示，他向谷歌申请 Widevine 数字版权服务，却在四个月后遭到拒绝。谷歌回信没有透露拒绝的原因。Maddock 在不久之后就放弃了浏览器的制作，他表示：“谷歌这样的守门人，完全可以决定哪些项目可以运作。如果没获得它的许可，你就完了。”
谷歌有一个独立项目试图缓解这个问题，项目的重点在于让不同的浏览器以更统一的方式运行，公司还提倡浏览器可以遵循更多的公共标准。Google Chrome 团队工程副总裁 Darin Fisher 为此进行了辩护，否认该公司有意打压竞争对手。
△ 十年前，IE 占主导地位，Chrome 此时还只是个弟弟
谷歌现在的市场份额占比比十年前的 IE 的还高，Chrome 的这个统治地位意味着 Google 可以设定互联网应该如何做的标准。而在 Google 的眼中，广告和用户数据收集似乎是默认的。Mozilla 联合创始人 Brendan Eich 说：”Chrome 已经变成了间谍软件“。其他浏览器默认屏蔽的第三方 cookie，Chrome 近日决定将由用户来决定 —— 并且由于 Chrome 的主导地位，这很可能是未来的浏览器标准。
Fisher 回应称，互联网需要广告才能让那些可能负担不起付费访问内容的人负担得起。他说，Chrome 团队独立于广告团队，但与广告团队也有合作，他们共享了自由和开放 Web 的理念。
一切的结果，会是如何呢？