Why do companies love chrome so much?

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• Emerald@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “We’re a very inaccessible and hostile webpage. Turn back now.”

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• circuitfarmer@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Weird, I see “You will need to use a different service/company”

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  • watson387@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Exactly what I saw. A giant nope.

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• tal@lemmy.today ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  gs.statcounter.com/…/worldwide

  According to this:

  On the desktop, Firefox has about 6% marketshare, and Edge, the Windows default, about 11%.

  On mobile, however, Firefox is at 0.5%, and Edge at 0.3%.

  A lot of people only browse the Web on a mobile platform. And the ones using those tend to use the default browser bundled with their phone. Apple bundles Safari, and Google bundles Chrome.

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• reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Because they hire cheap developers who don’t know what the fuck they are doing?

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  • rustymitt@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is the correct answer

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• prosp3kt@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  To avoid testing on other platforms. Money is limited.

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  • Freesoftwareenjoyer@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah, that was the case in one of the companies I worked for. They only tested on Chrome and Edge.

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    • AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’ve been at companies that did that too, historically, but it seems like a solved problem. My current company does UI testing only through headless browsers and it seems to work

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• DesertMagma@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Well good thing my employer runs a script every 15 min to set the default browser to Edge.

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  • linearchaos@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They probably get better metrics off of you running corporate logins and edge. Edge is equivalent to Chrome It supports all the same plugins.

    It’s probably just secops picking the low hanging fruit dissuade you subverting network security.

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  • mac@infosec.pub ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Jeez, imagine.

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• Brkdncr@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t know, works on my browser.

  -Devs, probably.

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• maxwisecracks@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  for the love of god, charge your phone

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• BiggestBulb@kbin.run ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The really irritating part is that tools like Playwright let you end-to-end test your product across the big three (Chromium, Firefox and Webkit). Which, most of the time, means these products that specify "Chrome only" simply aren't E2E testing with modern tools.

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  • pivot_root@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The only end-to-end happening in those scenarios is the end-to-end pipeline of “shit in, shit out”.

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    • max@feddit.nl ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Let’s be honest, probably no (automated) pipelines involved in the whole project. Bonus points for SSH’ing into the production server and manually making edits there.

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• someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It used to be the same way with Internet Explorer.

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• mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Because Google Chrome setups a good framework from the moment you open it to track, collect data, basically free market your internet life. Companies like to work the less possible using the least money, if Google already gives them all that setup for a fee then it’s more profitable than having to pay programmers to track you in other browsers.

  So they deliberately are saying to your face: “I only let you use my stuff if you enter as naked as possible”. They are not even shy about it.

  Someone like this only deserves a spit in the face and a domain ban. Basically. They can fuck off.

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• shalva97@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  because it has more market share

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• AVeryCleverName@lemmy.one ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I wonder if it would work if you spoofed your user agent.

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• Crashumbc@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Google pays them…

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  • GilgameshCatBeard@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Said the same thing. Was downvoted for it. Lemmy is weird

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    • pickman_model@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Sorry to hear that. The Internet overall is a weird place. Some corners are more so than others.

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• CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  64.7% of all web traffic was from Google Chrome in 12/23. Companies like it because you can develop for one browser and support most people.

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  • snooggums@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If they develop for only Firefix it will work with all browsers because Firefox is standards compatible.

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    • CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not really, unfortunately. Firefox has only like 85% of the spec implemented, iirc. It is the browser I develop in most, personally, though, fwiw.

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• iquanyin@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  cheap. easy to admin.

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• GilgameshCatBeard@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Because they’re paid to.

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• Digger9850@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You know what kind of org Google is don’t you ?

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• arran4@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Limited time to build something so you have to pick based on a couple factors, often largest % of users.

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• EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  brave browser is right there. Just saying.

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• sebinspace@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Have Chrome installed because Medcert requires it. Even if I agent switch, it still won’t function.

  Atleast im not the one paying for Medcert, so w/e

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