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.
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.
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.
> 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!
