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by thevania 1052 days ago
just looking at the market share - if google would leave w3c, w3c would become irrelevant
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The same market share that allows them to basically run their shenanigans without any real alternative besides Firefox (which receives hundreds of millions from Google)?

Why would Google even care about the W3C at all when they are basically a monopoly at this point? Apart of some PR and avoiding antitrust lawsuits

Instead of regulatory capture, we're witnessing increased consortium capture
Market share for what? Inflicting ads on people? Fortunately the W3C does not care (directly) about market share.
That is addressed to some degree in the linked discussion. I appreciate your thought but if you could take into account how it's already been engaged with and factor that into the discussion it would help move things forward.
Isn't W3C already made obsolete by WhatWG, run primarily by Google of course?
And if humans were reasonable Google would've been irrelevant a long time ago. I really don't understand why we're so gullible and complicit, such a waste of potential.