The easiest and best fix for this is antitrust. Splitting Chrome off from Google would remove the ineradicable tension of funding secure, private browser development with an extractive surveillance business model.
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The AMP standard in particular is a golden example why you don't want Google regulating the web. It was both highly anticompetitive and sincerely defended on the technical merits by engineers indignant that you could ever accuse them of impure motives.
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The fact that one company controls email, half the mobile phone OS market, monopolizes search, has a duopoly in online advertising (including political advertising in the one country with significant potential regulatory authority) and killed Reader is a crisis for the open web.
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People got lulled into complacency by Google's happy funtime "don't be evil" corporate culture & didn't realize the trap they were in until it was too late.
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Everyone gave up (EU included)
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Extreme agreeing happening here.
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Even more so as Google logs users into the *browser* by default.https://twitter.com/WolfieChristl/status/1155797702304837632 …
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