Chrome is a web browser created (largely) by Google. Google makes their money (largely) from web advertising. Web advertising is far more effective if you can u

Chrome is a web browser created (largely) by Google. Google makes their money (largely) from web advertising. Web advertising is far more effective if you can use things like cookies to decide what ads to show to people. So the claim is that Google has an incentive to make it harder to clear local browsing data than if they just considered it from the perspective of what users would want.