Hi schmidthouse,
With their position via acquired VirusTotal, Google Safebrowsing, and their https everywhere campaign for example their mono-culture behaviour is more and more that of "butchers that are inspecting the quality of their own meat", and that is not always Thueringer.
Also look with the url/uri bar without www changed into sort of a search bar in their latest Google Chrome version to be able turn more and more url queries into google-owned clicks. That is clickbaiting for their core-business, but you do not hear any protest from regulators anywhere
. No EU regulators, because Google too big to fail, too mighty to ignore as long as it "does not do evil", and many instances living hand in foot with good old Big Silicon Valley's Google.
This does not diminish the fact that google with their enormous market-driven proliferation did a lot to enhance the security infrastructure on the Interwebz, be it the Google way as any wannabe monopolist would behave. Learn their shortcuts by heart, you may need them some day, as in Holland for instance the proliferation of their browser is nearing 97 percent, even profoundly more than the 67% in the USA, where older users still think Big Blue E is a synonym for being on the Internet.
polonus