Nobody else can maintain a browser anymore, which is why almost everyone else dropped their own engine.
When google announced the "Manifest v3" thing, which does impact ad blockers, people cried, but nothing happened.
Yes, the standards are theoretically open, but concretely nobody else can keep up, Google-the-server launches X and Google-the-client implements it, and than they propose standardizing it but move on anyway, and everybody else plays catchup.
It's not worse than closed source Flash, but it's huge lock in anyway.
When google announced the "Manifest v3" thing, which does impact ad blockers, people cried, but nothing happened.
Yes, the standards are theoretically open, but concretely nobody else can keep up, Google-the-server launches X and Google-the-client implements it, and than they propose standardizing it but move on anyway, and everybody else plays catchup.
It's not worse than closed source Flash, but it's huge lock in anyway.