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The move to the API seems motivated more by keeping the ad profitability model up than being about technical/security reasons. While I'm glad we're not in the IE4 vs. web standards days anymore, with Edge now also being on Chromium-base, there's too many interests in that one hot spot. How did the old saying go? Power corrupts, absolute power ...

[HKH2]

Corruption exists because people refuse to do inconvenient things.

[rnd0]

Corruption exists because key internet infrastructure is maintained by corporations with perverse incentives (eg browsers owned by advertisers).

[HKH2]

We don't need Google, but it offers convenience.