I mean app in the traditional sense, application. It's apps (almost) all the way down. ;) And any new browser competition has been kneecapped in that way by r

I mean app in the traditional sense, application. It's apps (almost) all the way down. ;) And any new browser competition has been kneecapped in that way by recaptcha for a long time already. You either deal with the web being less convenient because you've opted somewhat out of the easy path presented you (like I do, with Firefox and many container tabs), or you don't use Google services, or accept the easy path of Chrome and Google services together. We're talking about convenience here. Google makes it convenient and more secure (from others) to use their applications and services together. I'm not going to begrudge them making something harder to do it a way they think is worse for them as a company as long as they still leave it possible. That's better than you'll get from Apple.