I see that, after people raised a whole bunch of issues with the proposal, there's a new message on the Web Integrity API repository: "An owner of this repository has limited the ability to open an issue to users that have contributed to this repository in the past." So the Google engineers' response to people pointing out the defects of the proposal was to shut down people's ability to raise issues with it. It's a good little preview of how they intend to treat the web's users.
this post was submitted on 25 Jul 2023
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It's definitely because they're cowards, but to be entirely fair this is a valid course of action when your repo suddenly gets 10k views a day.
Who am I kidding it because they can't take the hear of being this moronic
The big G's posting about it is merely a formality. They don't actually have to listen. That they closed the bug tracker on that repo so quickly is not a surprise.
I’m confused. Is this an actual proposal by Google? It is it personal musings of an engineer who may work for them? Have they tasked an engineer with floating a trial balloon?
The engineers on the proposal are all google employees and the presentation is consistent with proposals made as if speaking for their employers. It's not exactly common but it happens that proposals like this are made on the proposing employee's account, as google is so unfathomably large that many employees may not have push access to Google repos. However, given that this is a rather large and controversial proposal, I'd wager that this was a political decision to not "taint" official Google repos with this, enabling them to say "well it's not a proposal by Google the company we actually love our users :)"
Brilliant!
Google funds Mozilla to the tune of $450mus per year. That kind of money comes with strings. It seems likely that, some point in the relatively near future there will be a "we need to catch up with the cool kids" blog post after CoB on a Friday and the next point release of Firefox will have the WEI API implemented in it.
404 page not found. My ass google.
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