This isn't Google strong-arming the web. This is Google desperately wanting to turn off third-party cookies, and being told again and again by regulators that they aren't allowed to do so.
Regarding this, it's been 4 years. I am not letting google off the hook with this, especially when many other browsers already block third party cookies.
I stand by my opinion that an ad company operating a browser is a clear conflict of interest. If they didn't, this "privacy" feature would never have been a thing and this would have been done years ago.
Yes but the question is why is anyone using those things when they are only supported in a single browser? If its not fully supported by the major 4 browsers then its not getting put in my code, simple.
If Chrome was made by an independent company regulators couldn't care less if they disabled third party cookies.
But that counterfactual seems totally irrelevant to the claims the GP was making?
The answert is that the solution they are proposing hinders other ad compnies and give google unfair advantage in the ad space. Hence the they are not allowed to do for competition reasons.
But regulators from both the US and the EU have made similar statements.