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Modern (US) Anti-Trust law requires prove that the end user is actually harmed. Proving the existence of monopoly is not sufficient for conviction (This is a change that happened in the 70-80s and has been adopted and accepted as a useful defined interpretation of the law).

Do you want everybody to just not do anything until there is a standard? The modern web you have to start by having a working implementation for testing and refinement. Once that is done, you go for the standard. Mozilla also 'just implements' stuff and then tries to standardise it later.

> You simply cannot do anything on the web without Google seeing in one way or another.

without Google seeing SOMETHING, but that does not mean that SOMETHING is useful




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