Comment by choppaface

But the implicit goal is that _Google_ now owns fingerprinting in Chrome, versus the various other actors and tech in the space. Same as Apple owning fingerprints in iOS (and thus disrupting Facebook).

For anything “privacy tech” you must divorce the adversarial case (an actor maximizing an attack vector) with the average case (a monopolistic company using the tech to control overall opportunity costs). The latter has under-funded public study because Google et al will both throw gobs of money against it and throw shiny privacy tech problems out there to distract researchers.