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I don't know what to think here. On one hand, Google is writing code to make YouTube faster on its own browser. This is reasonable. On the other hand, Google is also using its dominance in internet video streaming to make Chrome look like a better product than the others. This is anti-competitive.

It is wrong to optimize for your own ecosystem, without optimizing for others?

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It's a symptom of a greater problem, which is that Google (the search engine) owns Chrome, Youtube, Android, Maps, Gmail, and a whole host of other services that are tenuously linked at best (outside of the fact that all the data gets fed into advertising algorithms)

Quite frankly, the company should be broken up forcibly by the government. All of these services should be profitable on their own, not used as loss leaders to grab as much ad data as possible and stamp out any sort of competition.

the only actually profitable part of the company is AdSense; the rest would just go bankrupt if it was on its own

Or they would be forced to charge for their services and actually compete in the market. Fastmail/protonmail exist, there's no reason Gmail couldn't charge $10/mo and provide the same services

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