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More like you might accidentally have Google decide your extension doesn't align with their business requirements and arbitrarily force you out of the Chrome store (after, incidentally, having made it nearly impossible for non-technical users to install extensions outside of Google's walled garden.)

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2015/07/21/how-youtube-killed-...

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This is why I had foolishly started my own browser. It is scary to think that the computing experience is limited and defined by one company and its practical monopoly. There should be something which is like Chromium, but more Chromium than Chromium, and enforced by law, and which other browsers plug into, or derive from, so they can't force the world into one standard experience, if it makes sense. (and same thing for Facebook, there should be a fundamental social network which has an API for others to plug into). I don't know if it's a failure of democracy, or if it's better that way. (also, the extension is nice). Anyway, eventually we'll make extensions through the layer on top, by graphical analysis, and then no one can prevent it.

Are you saying that web standards should go further and there should actually be a open-source web standards library?

Yes, open-source by law, but only the very basics. It'd seem fine to me if they implemented it closed-source on top, as long as it has the expected functionality.

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