But the worst here isn't that #Google is actively against the #openWeb: it's that in contrast to the first #browserWar, there is really nobody left to stand up to them.
Consider for example @davew's write-up on Google's effort to deprecate #HTTP
http://this.how/googleAndHttp/
and consider that #Firefox, the only actual alternative, is also on Google's page:
https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2015/04/30/deprecating-non-secure-http/
albeit less aggressively so.

I'm sure people have different ideas about what does it mean to support the #openWeb. I think first and foremost it means allowing users (on both sides of the connection) to use the protocols and file formats of their choice. Every time a browser fails to implement (or worse decides to remove) support for a standard protocol or file format, it's failing the open web. Half-assing implementation of web standards was basically #Microsoft's staple behavior during the first #browserWar.

I don't think people appreciate the role that #OperaSoftware played in fostering the #OpenWeb and #IndieWeb during the first #browserWar (when the #OperaBrowser was still built on their proprietary #Presto engine), and a fortiori the role it had in their demise (when they switched to being “just another #WebKit/#Blink skin”), despite their browser never even reaching a 3% market share.