Unlike Firefox and Safari, Google adheres to the standards regarding third party cookies alone. Disabling this default is a deviation from the general standard, which Google writes together with Apple, Microsoft, and Mozilla.
The entire privacy tracking framework they want to introduce is a feature for Google Chrome. This is possible because people simply like to use Chrome. The more people switch to non-Chromium, the less power Google has over this stuff, but few people care.
The Internet has always been in the hands of browser companies when it comes to browsers. Opera used to participate, and Internet Explorer was still relevant, but purely because of the speed difference, the only significant open party, Mozilla, has little market share left. Before that, the Web was a battleground between Netscape and Internet Explorer where standards barely existed and Java applets and Flash sites were the only way to get a consistent experience; Mozilla wasn’t there yet, Sun/Oracle and Adobe had power over the web.
The players have changed a little bit because old systems were beyond repair and because first Firefox, then Chrome, were much faster than the competition, but power over the web has always been in the hands of a few companies, with Microsoft being the most has remained a consistent part of it.
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