[echelon]

Google should be barred from making a web browser. The DOJ should come down hard on this behavior.

Not only is this monopolistic, but it's destroying the web and turning our privacy situation into a trash fire.

They're making this 3rd party cookie decision at the behest of their adsense unit, and it's decisions like these that are infectious across product boundaries. AMP, no URL, increasingly unilateral and opaque HTML standards that serve to push ads, ...

Google has been so lazy at innovation in other areas that they can't afford to lose Chrome. It's a key part of their fragile moat. They'll defend it to the death.

Nevertheless, these two products should not be the same company.

I want Google to succeed, but not like this.

[dna_polymerase]

You could argue that there are more jobs on the line if they remove support than leaving it as is. AdTech is huge. Now go and tell any government entity about coming down "hard on this behavior".

[burnished]

The role of government isn't to support whichever industry is currently employing a lot of people and ignore everything else. I know it sounds a little insane, but I think the rule of law and our moral center is more on the ticket.

[echelon]

Ignore the "adtech is a big business" issue.

Should a company with the world's largest advertising and tracking business be in charge of 65% of the web?

Should they be able to unilaterally set standards?

Should they be allowed to delay rollout of consumer protections to defend their ad unit?

This alone poses an enormous problem.

[friendzis]

Cocaine is not a small business either, but we do crack down on it. How sure are you that adtech is a net positive for society?