I’m not defending Google. I completely excised them from my life almost a decade ago already. I’m simply freeing people from the illusion that Google has “won

I’m not defending Google. I completely excised them from my life almost a decade ago already. I’m simply freeing people from the illusion that Google has “won the web” or whatever. Google is effectively giving everyone a free ride with Chromium. They aren’t forcing anyone onto Chrome (where the real tracking happens), and if they did by making Chromium private from now on, again, forks and upstream swaps would happen at lightspeed.