It’s no secret that Google has a very large influence. They have influenced web pages into being highly optimized for high search engine rankings, and have pushed AMP: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/googles-amp-canonical-web-and-importance-web-standards-0. However I haven’t found any concrete examples of Google pushing web standards that have been adopted and require browser support. I’ve read comments here and there like this one, that the Shadow DOM was created and pushed by Google, perhaps to make it harder to block ads, but didn’t find any sources on that.
Maybe there are better examples, but Google famously removed JPEG-XL support from Chrome despite there being a huge demand for it and other browsers preparing to support it.
QUIC, originally developed at Google and initially supported in Chromium-based browsers, now part of HTTP/3. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-quic-http-17
Isn’t this good tho?
Google is allowed to do good things.
