Let's see how quick EU officials are to enforce and punish their own industry for those practices. GDPR is one thing but they don't even tell their customers what they are collecting and there is often no way to turn it off.
For one, doing only one thing is a huge risk for the company. It's the business equivalent of putting all of the eggs in one basket. If that one thing gets out of balance in any way, the company is dead. So doing multiple things can basically be safer.
Second thing: where do you see the application of the UNIX philosophy being actually useful and popular? It's not even popular in the *nix world - systemd, for one, breaks it in a big way, but is still wildly successful, maybe because it's doing many things, and it's doing them well. Another successful example is ZFS - top of its class, and it's many layers integrated to one. The power comes from the integration.
The UNIX way is not a holy gospel; it’s a way of thinking that has worked relatively well for software. There’s no reason it should be blindly copied into everything else. Stop using the UNIX way as a hand-wavy solution to complex problems.
It's definitely not the same people who work on the browser. And given that not many other people are seemingly interested in analyzing this kind of privacy concerns, well, I personally prefer a few more bugs or missing features in Firefox, and some more public outreach about privacy issues.
If You’ve Got a New Car, It’s a Data Privacy Nightmare (gizmodo.com)
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