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"Tracking protection" sounds more like "alternative tracking."
Lot of time, money, and effort toward a moderate improvement rather than just not perceiving users as products. But...improvement is improvement.
What's the downside?
Users are products. That will only change if people become a lot happier with paying for services.
No argument here. There's a global paradigm shift needed to break out of that mindset should it even be possible, but it still boggles my mind in the meantime the resources invested in sustaining this ecosystem.
The downside is it makes Google the de facto owner of all of your online information. You could never use a Google product, but because they have such a large market share they'll essentially force every site and platform to use their solution.