Yea but they do all that to secure their services so they can harvest the information. "Rather than holding it as a "competitive advantage"" Doing so gives the

Yea but they do all that to secure their services so they can harvest the information. "Rather than holding it as a "competitive advantage"" Doing so gives them the "competitive advantage" by creating the illusion of some "white knight" protector of the internet and its users. I don't even mind Google as much as I mind the weird delusional back-flips people do in order to forget the fact that Google is an advertising/tracking company. They have no business plan if people stop trusting the internet or use browsers that can make tracking/analytic data harder for them to collect.