While he's a technology lover at heart, he holds Android phones, and smartphones in general, close to heart. Arol brings half a decade of writing experience, and the occasional hot take, to his writings. He transitioned to a news and feature writer role at XDA Developers that same year, where he worked until 2021 before making the jump to AP.

Years later, in 2017, he got his true start in tech journalism working for a small Google-focused site called Pixel Spot. He first began writing online for the short-lived portal of Spanish-language gaming forum Emudesc in 2013. While everyone seems fine using Chrome, the established market can be extremely hostile to new contenders.Īrol is a tech journalist and contributor at Android Police. Whether that's the whole story regarding how Firefox fell off as one of the top browsers is another story, but Mozilla does have a point: anticompetitive practices are ever-present in the browser space and they've increasingly become a problem. These strategies are successful to some extent and an unfair advantage against third parties like Mozilla, which don't have that kind of pull on users. All of them have, to varying degrees, swayed users to their browsers and have purposefully made it difficult to switch to another browser through heavy integration and a train of prompts to prevent conversion.Īccessing Google from a non-Chrome browser will show a prompt for you to download Chrome and, if you're on Windows, you might already be familiar with Microsoft's constant pleas to get you to use Edge. After all, Google makes the Chrome browser and Android, Apple makes Safari and macOS/iOS, and Microsoft makes Edge and Windows. Mozilla has just published a report (via TechCrunch) that attempts to document how Google, Apple, and Microsoft have exerted their influence over their users in an attempt to benefit their own ecosystem of apps, and in turn, their browser.

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