• deus@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Yeah, it’s weird for them to rely on Google considering how hard Valve has worked to make Steam independent from MS.

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      1 year ago

      It probably doesn’t matter for what they do. There isn’t really much need for an ad blocker on a browser that’s going to a store page which is essentially an ad for a product in and of itself. A steam user actually wants that store page to load, why would there be a need for a store page?

      And they could transition to something else if Google does something that affects them.

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      1 year ago

      I don’t think it’s too weird. So many apps today are just Chromium wrappers. It’s just easier to use a premade base, plus you don’t have to develop the web and desktop version independently, they can literally be the same code.

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        1 year ago

        While that’s fairly typical and good practice in dev circles, we’re talking about a company that’s single handedly elevated an entire OS to prevent a big company taking too much power. I think the key here is they don’t really compete with Google.