Isn't that Google blog article completely ignoring the fact that Google implementing tracking protection would hurt their ability to maintain marketplace dominance in one domain (66%+ of web browsers) in order to further maintain and entrench Google's dominance and profitability in yet another (web advertising), and therefore anti-competitive [0][1]?
I can completely understand that the software engineers working on Chrome are separate from the ones working on Ads, but ignoring that conflict interest that is extremely obvious to some outsiders reduces how seriously these arguments can be taken by this group of people. I think Google needs to do more to highlight that their technical choices in Chrome and other Google products and services does not advantage their Ad business if that is truly the case.
I can completely understand that the software engineers working on Chrome are separate from the ones working on Ads, but ignoring that conflict interest that is extremely obvious to some outsiders reduces how seriously these arguments can be taken by this group of people. I think Google needs to do more to highlight that their technical choices in Chrome and other Google products and services does not advantage their Ad business if that is truly the case.
[0] https://www.netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx
[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/193530/market-share-of-n...
Update: reworded and added a bit more.