couldn’t agree less. does the author not know that the web standards body have already forked once? it’s not some crushing dictatorship that has no recourse.

couldn’t agree less. does the author not know that the web standards body have already forked once? it’s not some crushing dictatorship that has no recourse. broader input from more voices, lay voices, can only make it worse. not that it matters. the standards bodies don’t really have as much independent control as one would think. the browser makers, ie 3 large companies, internally decide what they want and implement it. one of them is obsessed with owning user information, another with ecosystem lock-in but with a nod towards stronger privacy guarantees, and the other with catching up. as independent as the 4th might think they are, they are solidly attached to the teats of the others.