They are a gatekeeper for a huge number of websites, this effectively blocks anyone from using a browser that isn't a wrapper around Blink, or Firefox itself. A

They are a gatekeeper for a huge number of websites, this effectively blocks anyone from using a browser that isn't a wrapper around Blink, or Firefox itself. As it is there are very few independent browsers given Google's absolute monopoly over web standards and constant stuffing draft specs into Chrome. This is far worse than the IE6 days.