At least with cars things are different for now; the browser/platform business model is a "surveillance capitalism" one. Where we (Google or Google via a deal

At least with cars things are different for now; the browser/platform business model is a "surveillance capitalism" one. Where we (Google or Google via a deal with Apple) give away a product, that has been extremely costly to build, for free, in return for you giving us a (de-facto) exclusive on profiling and data mining your online behaviour, so we can get an effective monopoly on brokering advertisement.