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Seems like this is going to get a lot of pushback. It might not go through. But remember whether it goes through or not isn't the important thing. The fact that

Seems like this is going to get a lot of pushback. It might not go through. But remember whether it goes through or not isn't the important thing. The fact that Google wants it to is what matters.

thesuperbigfrog 3y ago
>> Seems like this is going to get a lot of pushback. It is: https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/issues https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/...
- rvnx 3y ago
  The same was with Privacy Sandbox; Result: billions of device now happily adopted it (by force).
- urda 3y ago
  > An owner of this repository has limited the ability to open an issue to users that have contributed to this repository in the past. It sure seems like they're silencing opposition.
JohnFen 3y ago
Correct. If the pushback is successful, rest assured that the reprieve will be temporary. At best, they'll come back around with some tweaks and changes to blunt the more egregious aspects, but it will come back. The "privacy sandbox" stuff is a perfect example of this process.
- caskstrength 3y ago
  > Correct. If the pushback is successful, rest assured that the reprieve will be temporary. At best, they'll come back around with some tweaks and changes to blunt the more egregious aspects, but it will come back. Yes, they might even intentionally have started with proposal so over-the-top that people who are now protesting may feel that they won when some time afterwards Google presents slightly less creepy second iteration this. And the ones who don't will be cast as radicals who don't want to engage in good-faith discussion while Google seemingly proposes a reasonable compromise. Besides, would anybody please think of the child... err... banks with webpages!
treprinum 3y ago
This feels like a reincarnation of Microsoft Halloween documents but all in the open... How corrupt our industry became that this doesn't cause the same uproar... Google truly morphed into what it fought in the beginning. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_documents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_documents
- marcosdumay 3y ago
  It's literally a page from the Trusted Computing Platform. Even the names of the things are the same.

Seems like this is going to get a lot of pushback. It might not go through. But remember whether it goes through or not isn't the important thing. The fact that Google wants it to is what matters.

thesuperbigfrog 3y ago

>> Seems like this is going to get a lot of pushback. It is: https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/issues https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/...

rvnx 3y ago
The same was with Privacy Sandbox; Result: billions of device now happily adopted it (by force).
urda 3y ago
> An owner of this repository has limited the ability to open an issue to users that have contributed to this repository in the past. It sure seems like they're silencing opposition.

JohnFen 3y ago

Correct. If the pushback is successful, rest assured that the reprieve will be temporary. At best, they'll come back around with some tweaks and changes to blunt the more egregious aspects, but it will come back. The "privacy sandbox" stuff is a perfect example of this process.

caskstrength 3y ago
> Correct. If the pushback is successful, rest assured that the reprieve will be temporary. At best, they'll come back around with some tweaks and changes to blunt the more egregious aspects, but it will come back. Yes, they might even intentionally have started with proposal so over-the-top that people who are now protesting may feel that they won when some time afterwards Google presents slightly less creepy second iteration this. And the ones who don't will be cast as radicals who don't want to engage in good-faith discussion while Google seemingly proposes a reasonable compromise. Besides, would anybody please think of the child... err... banks with webpages!

treprinum 3y ago

This feels like a reincarnation of Microsoft Halloween documents but all in the open... How corrupt our industry became that this doesn't cause the same uproar... Google truly morphed into what it fought in the beginning. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_documents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_documents

marcosdumay 3y ago
It's literally a page from the Trusted Computing Platform. Even the names of the things are the same.