>If the audience is the product, Google still has an interest in selling a quality product. That means not running off more and more of the most tech savvy "pro

>If the audience is the product, Google still has an interest in selling a quality product. That means not running off more and more of the most tech savvy "product" segment. I'd say there's an argument to be made for pushing out the tech savvy from using Chrome. Compared to the total user base, those folks are a tiny minority who often cause problems by complaining about privacy invasions and develop/use privacy focused extensions. Why would Google want the small group of folks who draw attention to and sometimes (gasp!) create extensions that limit the ability of Google and Chrome to track/monitor the product herds? If the folks who actually have a clue as to what Google is up to and how they're implementing it are driven away from Chrome, there will be fewer folks implementing privacy and related extensions for Chrome. Anheuser-Busch doesn't care that a professional brewer is unlikely to buy cases of Bud Light. In fact, I'm sure they'd prefer they didn't, as that would likely invite negative feedback from those folks. Having a docile, uninformed pool of "product" to be sold to advertisers gives Google the opportunity to implement more and more tracking/advertising features into Chrome with less pushback from the "product" is likely seen as an unmitigated good by the rapacious and unethical scum who want ever more tracking/monitoring in browser-based interactions.