Not sure why Google needs to sell chrome but Microsoft doesn't need to sell edge. Noone controlling the device should also own the internet browser imo.

[–] mke@programming.dev 9 points 1 month ago

I think the biggest difference is the fact Google owns the majority of the web browser market share, but there's more to the cases than "big company owns big browser," it actually has to do with Google's search engine deals (e.g. with Apple and Mozilla) and Google's ad business stifling the industry.

[–] quickenparalysespunk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I only mentioned MS Edge to highlight that it's a chrome(-ium) browser and ~~therefore~~ Edge probably has a paid team of developers.

That team probably has enough quantity of members (or coding work hours) to overwhelm the upstream chromium code contributions of volunteer developers of foss projects.

Because of Edge's volume of contributions, they could accidentally/intentionally decide the direction of Chromium, even without owning it officially. That's one of the ways I heard that Google controlled Chromium, accidentally or intentionally.

edit: wording mistake