I've never gotten a googler to give me a straight answer about how this level of aggressiveness is morally acceptable. 

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The banners are a very heavy thumb on the scale. For a company with such a meritocratic culture, why do you need it?
Those banners rolled out at a time when the majority of people seeing it were on IE. It could be seen as an attempt to save the web from IE.
That being said, I think it would be reasonable to retire the hard sell given a new climate of generally-pretty-good desktop browsers.
At this point, Chrome has reaped the benefits of putting its thumb on the scale. I'd welcome retirement but it's hardly magnanimous.
Google is making a rational business decision; not immoral. What makes you think Google is even handed? They give preference to YouTube, etc
Another example is bundling Google Docs and Google Drive with Gmail. Very similar to Microsoft’s behavior in the 1990s. This is nothing new.
And don’t forget the Google Plus, which was shoehorned into almost every other Google property, whether it made sense or not.
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