Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome

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Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome
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There is an issue with monoculture of rendering engines. Developers assume every browser have the same things implemented and start to build around this assumption. Also Google can dictate how the web looks like.

Exactly, we've seen this previously with Internet explorer.

And Netscape before that, it had reached 90% market share.

You're missing the point. Netscape implemented the html standard, they didn't introduce new, proprietary "features" to gain that market share.

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