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I can categorically say no, that is not the reason. It's to make the web experiences better, instant and accessible and available to everyone. There needs to b

by kinlan 9y ago

I can categorically say no, that is not the reason. It's to make the web experiences better, instant and accessible and available to everyone. There needs to be pressure on the entire ad industry (including Google's products) to not hurt the users experience with crappy and bloaty ads the ruin the hard work product teams make to build on the web. I do believe (I am biased as I am on the Chrome team) that the Chrome team want to do the right thing for the users of the web.

gkya 9y ago
I guess we need a kind of CE mark for websites. Some standardisation and an approval mechanism for security and reliability. We wouldn't trust our closest friendss with our banking accounts but we do use websites without any guarantees whatsoever. Software that is vital to us (banking, health, govt stuff) is subject to less regulation than cheese or wine.
- briandear 9y ago
  And who do you trust to do such certifications? The US government struggled with what was essentially an easy site for Obamacare exchanges. State and local governments are partying like its 1999 for the most part and the “big” enterprises like Equifax, various large health insurers, banks and Yahoo are subject to nearly constant reports of vulnerabilities and hacks. Really the only people I might trust would be google, but there is a conflict of interest I think considering they have a vested interest in enabling things like tracking. So who does this “certification?” Hopefully not the same people who call for 8 digit passwords you have to chance arbitrarily every three months or people who’s idea of security comes from circa 1996 Microsoft documentation.
  - gkya 9y ago
    Calm down. I can trust the academicians in the field. Also the world is more than the US. And I'm fed up with having to trust my data with possibly/usually incompetent people (and sometimes one really has to, e.g. my schools online services). Trained staff and mandatory third-party security tests are a nice place to commence. It's nice that on the internet you can hack together a thing and get going, but it's not one's email address the only thing at the stakes. I would like to be able to differentiate between the hack and the proper service. And ATM the only thing we have is intuition and the https in the domain.

by kinlan 9y ago

gkya 9y ago

I guess we need a kind of CE mark for websites. Some standardisation and an approval mechanism for security and reliability. We wouldn't trust our closest friendss with our banking accounts but we do use websites without any guarantees whatsoever. Software that is vital to us (banking, health, govt stuff) is subject to less regulation than cheese or wine.

briandear 9y ago
And who do you trust to do such certifications? The US government struggled with what was essentially an easy site for Obamacare exchanges. State and local governments are partying like its 1999 for the most part and the “big” enterprises like Equifax, various large health insurers, banks and Yahoo are subject to nearly constant reports of vulnerabilities and hacks. Really the only people I might trust would be google, but there is a conflict of interest I think considering they have a vested interest in enabling things like tracking. So who does this “certification?” Hopefully not the same people who call for 8 digit passwords you have to chance arbitrarily every three months or people who’s idea of security comes from circa 1996 Microsoft documentation.
- gkya 9y ago
  Calm down. I can trust the academicians in the field. Also the world is more than the US. And I'm fed up with having to trust my data with possibly/usually incompetent people (and sometimes one really has to, e.g. my schools online services). Trained staff and mandatory third-party security tests are a nice place to commence. It's nice that on the internet you can hack together a thing and get going, but it's not one's email address the only thing at the stakes. I would like to be able to differentiate between the hack and the proper service. And ATM the only thing we have is intuition and the https in the domain.