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Google quite rightfully cares very little about what Hacker News has to say anything.
That’s not the point. It’s an observation of how Google’s lost its status amongst hackers. It’s well into its transition into becoming the next IBM.
This doesn't seem useful unless it's something standardized across browsers. Otherwise I'd still need to use a plugin to support safari, etc. It seems like it could be nice for something like a bookmarklet or a one-off script, but I don't think it'll really reduce friction in engaging with Gemini for serious web apps.
I'm sure you realize that Google's strategy has long been the opposite: that users will continue to abandon other engines when theirs is the only one that supports capabilities, until standards no longer matter at all and the entire browser ecosystem is theirs. Chrome may have been a darling thing when it was young, but is now just a fresh take on Microsoft's Internet Explorer strategy. MS lost it's hold on the web b…
That’s why people chose chrome? Citation needed. I’ve very rarely seen websites rely on new browser specific capabilities, except for demos/showcases.
Didn’t Chrome slowly become popular using Google's own marketing channel, search? That’s what I thought.
> MS lost it's hold on the web because of regulatory action
Well, not only. They objectively made a worse product for decades and used their platform to push it, much more effectively than Google too. They are still pushing Edge hard, with darker patterns than Google imo.
In either case, the decision to adopt Chromium wasn’t forced. Microsoft clearly must have been aligned enough on the capability model to not deem it a large risk, and continued to push for Edge just as they did with IE.
Alright, here’s a take I haven’t seen in this thread yet: how could this be used for fingerprinting, beyond an existence check for the API itself?
This assumes the model is different on each computer. And that made me realize that Google might start training it with your browser history. Anything is possible at this point.
Man, the bloat is unreal. Can't we just have a browser without all the extra crap?
Yesterday upon restarting my PC a Skype dialog popped up inviting me to see how CoPilot could help me. So naturally I went into the task manager and shut down the Skype processes.
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So many AI applications right now are just buzzword plays like that, burning hundreds of watts and seconds of latency on features that are already solved better and cheaper with traditional programs. But lots of both stakeholders and users currently value the "magic" itself over anything practical.
> So many AI applications right now are just buzzword plays like that, burning hundreds of watts and seconds of latency on features that are already solved better and cheaper with traditional programs. Internet has been already like genAI for decades. Need a picture? Prompt in the Google Image search a few keywords. There are billions of human made images to choose from. Need to find information about something? Agai…
Alright, here’s a take I haven’t seen in this thread yet: how could this be used for fingerprinting, beyond an existence check for the API itself?
There's already so many ways to fingerprint users which are far more reliable though.
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Google quite rightfully cares very little about what Hacker News has to say anything.
That’s not the point. It’s an observation of how Google’s lost its status amongst hackers. It’s well into its transition into becoming the next IBM.