You’re looking too narrowly. By getting devs to cater to whatever gets rolled out in Blink and v8, google extends the power they have over the whole ecosystem by making any browser that doesn’t follow them look “broken” (as opposed to, not slavishly following everything google does).

It also increases the difficulty of making a competing browser engine by adding tons of complexity (for questionable value), only further entrenching google’s dominance. But at least you get some stupid new CSS3 behaviors (that people will bitch about not working in Firefox or Safari) so I guess it’s worth it.

Everyone who uses Chrome (or Brave, Vivaldi, Arc, or anything else that uses Chromium as a base) - you’re helping google extend their power over the open web, and those helping them do this.

It’s a small thing, but Google’s power over the web derives from each of the the millions of people who continue to make Chrome the standard that webdevs cater to.

If those accounts aren’t doing anything detectable (spamming, etc), what’s the problem with their existence?

The internet peaked with gopher, tbh. Mosaic was the beginning of the end.

Why not just stop people from semi-metaphorically shitting the place up?

It’s kind of boring at this point.

Threads is up to 100 million users since it launched on Wednesday of last week. This is Musk tweeting his ever worsening narcissistic injury in realtime.