Progression != improvement. When ad blockers won't work, when you get DRM everywhere and trackers will be embedded in the browser, the tech will have progresse

Progression != improvement. When ad blockers won't work, when you get DRM everywhere and trackers will be embedded in the browser, the tech will have progressed. Yet it will not be the progress you want to live. It's like if suddenly you had only one car maker and say "it will be easier to design infrastructure for it". Yes, it will be. But it also mean you won't get innovation for you, only for the car maker. For google that would mean pushing techs serving the ad and data collection business of course. But also in general, that would mean building for big companies. Adopting standards that are mostly beneficial to people that have the money to buy patents, setup many CDN, have high end engineers, invest in specialized hardware, etc.