Chrome has 3.45 billion users worldwide.
As the gatekeeper between the user and the web, there's no shortage of to ways burn the good reputation of Chrome for one-time financial gains.
That sounds ideal to me. Every other big corporation (Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft) would otherwise have their agenda to push.
Otherwise some kind of foundation might be created, similar to the mozilla foundation, with various companies chipping in some money to fund development.
Maybe at this point Chrome has to be taken over by some organization in the public interest, like a government/coalition or a non-profit.
A problem is how do you support the huge cost of current developers who are accustomed to Google compensation.
Or maybe Chrome doesn't need a lot of development at this point, or isn't the best starting point. Maybe some kind of public interest effort can focus on public interest goals, instead of a shiny adtech and surveillance platform?
Sounds like the mozilla foundation, but there would be a clear conflict of interest.
Maybe a chrome foundation?
There is not one iota of truth to that statement.
