J Leslie Turriff composed on 2021-06-29 17:31 (UTC-0500):
IMO, the browser development community has sold out to the interests of commercial trackers and data collectors.
I don't think "selling" was the usurpation method. IMO, big money interests found hungry developers they could salary to assimilate into the management sections of development communities to convert the former "user agents" aka web browsers into advertisers' agents and data collectors that are in a near perpetual state of bloat growth.