Comment by jillesvangurp

Which will lead to counter moves by alterative browsers and websites and Google risking the loss of browser market share. If you think this is unthinkable, just look back at Microsoft's dominance of the browser market twenty years ago. Exactly like Google is doing they were pushing through all sorts of user hostile stuff via internet explorer. Before Chrome came along, Firefox was one of the few holdouts against them. Internet explorer users were dealing with all sorts of crap. Popups, popunders, all sorts of viruses, cross site scripting attacks, etc. Mostly that was just a mix of poorly designed features but there was also MS trying to get into search and advertising and they were trying to abuse their defacto monopoly to do that.