> They want to prevent competitor browsers from using these APIs so people are forced to use Chrome That is not, in ANY way or by ANY stretch, their argument,

> They want to prevent competitor browsers from using these APIs so people are forced to use Chrome That is not, in ANY way or by ANY stretch, their argument, although I'll agree it is clearly their intention. Their argument is very clearly based on a security perspective. > Yes, you can steal Chrome's keys, but Google can easily update those in Chrome. Are you going to write an automated system to extract the keys from Chrome on every update? Doubtful. Really? You think malware authors won't take such a simple step as that if it makes them money?! You're insane. Besides which you don't (currently) have to do that because they've never changed! > This stops browsers like Opera and Brave from using the APIs. No, their terms of service do that. Otherwise, Opera and Brave could just go pull the keys out of the source and use them.