It's untenable to have a fox as guardian of the chicken coop, this shit will return again and again as long as Google controls Chrome. Come on, lets see some serious anti-trust action.
Yes. Though they could fundraise also using other methods.
And how about asking customers to pay $50 license for Android when they buy a smart phone? Or an annual fee, for updates and maintenance.
I mean, those payments are already done, except they are currently obfuscated because we only see the purchase price when we buy a phone, not the money passed under the table in exchange for yielding our privacy.
On a less cheeky note, I’m all for breaking up Google but the reality is that outside of this small tech circle nobody cares. People like the current system and they have no problem with web DRM either because if anything it might benefit them (no stupid captchas for example).