[siteshwar]

> How does this even make sense ?

Google is highly influential in how information is consumed and distributed. People use chrome to browse web, google search for searching information etc. If they have major control over how information is distributed, they have major control over the web. Ofcourse there are other similar services that are not provided by Google, but they are very less influential due to lack of users.

> You should be scared of walled gardens displacing the web.

What if web becomes a walled garden ? Look at what Google did with DRM[1], even Mozilla had to give up their efforts to fight against it[2]. How could that be possible without having a major influence over the web ?

[1] https://boingboing.net/2017/01/30/google-quietly-makes-optio... [2] https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/05/14/drm-and-the-challen...

[milcron]

Not to mention AMP on every news site, and Google Analytics on nearly every page.

[ucaetano]

None of that equals "having control of the web".

> What if web becomes a walled garden ?

That, again, doesn't even make sense.

A walled garden isn't "you need to pay to access my content". A walled garden is "you can only access my content".

Apple is a walled garden. Facebook is a walled garden. The web, by definition, isn't a walled garden.

And that's why Apple and Facebook kinda hate the web.