> As much as I herald the ongoing march toward mass HTTPS adoption, I'm not sure Google should be taking the credit. The post seems to say that they're trying

> As much as I herald the ongoing march toward mass HTTPS adoption, I'm not sure Google should be taking the credit. The post seems to say that they're trying to get out of the way of https adoption. It doesn't even mention their initiatives such as requiring encryption for http2 or the location API. > - most probably because Google are suppressing any mention of it in their results or in Google News Is the world going completely mad[1]? This is so obviously wrong, simply because people don't google [news] to be informed, nor does Google News have enough influence to be meaningful. You think the WSJ/NYT/Daily Mail/SPIEGEL depend on google to find out the news? Then where would these news reports actually come from that google is supressing? > There are no web standards anymore - if Google want to add a feature to Chrome[...] Which isn't actually true, because Safari is large enough to require support. And because Google is a dependable participant at the WHATWG. It's also the only way that actually works, because you need an implementation for any specification. Looking at the pace of browser improvements and level of compatibility – if that's the result of Google's corruption, I want more of it. > forcing the other browser makers to adopt that feature lest they be left behind Or as they used to call it: competition. It's markedly different than MS's extend-and-extinguish strategy back in the days. I can't think of any features that disproportionally benefit Google. > You simply cannot do anything on the web without Google seeing in one way or another. There seems to be some sort of newfangled "adblocking software". I'm also not quite sure if google correlates analytics data with user profiles – I know they don't do it on my sites because I'm using their feature to anonymize the last 3 digits of IP addresses (as required by law in my country). > Put simply, the Internet is dead; All we have now is the Googlenet. As long as I can substitute "Google" with "Facebook" and make the sentence actually more believable I don't think we're quite there, yet. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_Nut(Gullible) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_Nut(Gullible)