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Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome (arstechnica.com)
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[–] kautau 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

In 2008? Sure, chrome was lightning quick, especially with V8 on the JS side, granted this was on Mac. It was only a matter of time before it became google’s ad platform though

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe the Linux version was ahead of Mac and Windows in 2008. It was already crap then. lol

[–] kautau 1 points 1 year ago

I’m a JavaScript dev by trade. V8 was light years ahead when it came out, the specs on runtime compilation were off the charts. I’m not defending google by any means, but the work that went into V8 is how nodejs was created, and Firefox has adapted many of those learnings into its own JS engine. Google was and always has been a corporation for profit, but their engineers really pushed JS into a new stage with their engine, whether or not the browser around it was great