…but that doesn’t mean Google doesn’t also abuse their position.

Billion dollar corporations are not our friends, and the only interest they have is about what’s in our wallets.

Now that's abusing market position.

Timeline:

VP8: 2010

VP9: 2013

Google: we're going to slow down the release of new codecs to once every 18 months

VP10 became AV1: 2015

For some reason they've stopped, but I wouldn't put it past them to continue with fire and motion again.