Thankfully, there’s alternatives for search as well as browser. I’ve switched my primary search to https://duckduckgo.com/ , and I’ve been on Firefox since it was an alternative to IE.
The latter point brings me round to a larger issue- Chrome got some of its early growth because Microsoft got hit by antitrust legislation, and couldn’t extinguish the browser wars completely. The rise of a new generation of tech giants depended on MS facing regulatory action if they got too predatory. Now we need anew round of big stick regulation to keep the FAANG companies in line.
As with Microsoft and IBM before them, every technology company that gets large enough tends towards evil.
