If they cared about their users then they would follow suite with Firefox, Safari, Opera, and even IE to block intrusive tracking [1]. Instead they take this anti-competitive action and increase the amount of tracking by auto-logging users into their browsers.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/11/google-chromes-users-take-back-seat-its-bottom-line" rel="nofollow">https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/11/google-chromes-users-t...</a>
With their tight grip on the internet ad market, this is trundling dangerously close to anti-competitive behavior. They must feel very secure in their lobbying efforts.
As the article alluded to at the end there, this is yet another reminder that Google has way too much control. It's easy to hop on the bandwagon without reading into the implications here because almost everyone hates instrusive ads, but letting one company decide what does and doesn't get to be content on the web isn't healthy for a free internet.
Google's primary business is selling ads but they ad-block any website they consider "abusive"? How does that make sense? What stops them blocking all ads except Google ads?