Everywhere I look people are complaining about how awful the internet is now. That is largely due to Google influence and dominance over the past 15 years. People see ads as the only way to monetize a product, attention is the currency of the internet, and all original utility from many sites has been stripped away to prioritize addiction and attention. Since these things are all that matters, bots and AI generated content have taken over, and who cares, as long as it keeps people glued to the screen. This is Google's internet.

All other corporations have tried to funnel users to app stores away from websites, their internet is just an app store without any internet. I take Googles internet over Microsofts or Apples any day.

Google made chrome to avoid such a thing, without chrome its likely the internet as a set of websites humans visit would be all but dead today. It is already a marginal part of traffic, 90% of mobile time is spent on apps and not browsers, but it would be much less if there were no good browser competition to Apple and Microsoft.