Technologies such as browsers are very important, yet it is very hard to come up with a business model for funding their development in a way that does not comp

Technologies such as browsers are very important, yet it is very hard to come up with a business model for funding their development in a way that does not compromise the users trust or lead to unhealthy monopolies. I think browsers should be viewed as a public service good and be funded (at least in part) by government subsidies to avoid reliance and corruption by the toxic ad-tech industry. I mean, everybody relies on browsers, they have become the de facto app deployment platform, and funding the development of the major 3-4 browsers would not even make a tiny dent in the budgets of the US or EU.