> There's not much added to the browser that's particularly independent (i.e browser A adds it with browser B having no plan to implement it at all)
You haven't seen the privacy nightmare APIs Google is trying to push on web "standards"? The only other two browsers, Firefox and Safari, are not going to implement most of them in the foreseeable future.
Unless something has changed about jQuery, it is only concerned with DOM manipulation and data fetching. Do any of the privacy nightmare apis touch those areas?
You haven't seen the privacy nightmare APIs Google is trying to push on web "standards"? The only other two browsers, Firefox and Safari, are not going to implement most of them in the foreseeable future.