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by sircastor 1871 days ago
I don’t think it’s so malicious. I think they just see a feature they’d like in the browser, and add it.

Google appears to be built on the idea of creating a feature or a service, sharing it, making some excitement, and then moving on to the next thing. I think a lot of these concepts are just engineers making things because they can get sign off on it.

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> I think they just see a feature they’d like in the browser, and add it.

I'm not sure. Their official policy is that almost everything should be an add-on. Even things like "don't let random sites install search engines into my browser" should not be a setting, but should be a plugin that works around the browser to make it happen.