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Think Lazy – Open Letter to Apple Safari Team
- narrowtux 6y agoCalling anything anybody spent a huge portion of their time on "lazy" and not expecting them to take it personally just shows a lack of empathy.
- dstaley 6y agoI think that the laser focus on the use of the word "lazy" isn't really warranted considering the author isn't a native English speaker. His use of "lazy" meant more along the lines of "taking the easy way out". It was a reference to the WebKit team giving a list of several APIs that they were not going to implement because of privacy concerns. It takes little to no effort for the WebKit team to simply throw their hands up, yell "Privacy concerns!", and then refuse to implement or engage in a discussion on how to improve the APIs. That's why the term "lazy" was used, and while I would have phrased it differently, I think it's abundantly clear that the author wasn't calling a person or persons lazy, merely describing their actions as the easy way out.
- Someone 6y agoThey didn’t just yell “privacy”. https://webkit.org/tracking-prevention/ https://webkit.org/tracking-prevention/: “features we have decided to not implement in part due to fingerprinting concerns” They don’t go into detail, likely because that is a post about tracking prevention, but I guess security is another part for some of these. They also left the door open by saying “Some of these features may reduce fingerprintability down the road which would allow us to reconsider”. I would guess that if Google, Microsoft or Mozilla (whichever of these wants to see these APIs implemented everywhere) gave them a call, they would be open for discussion. If not, that IMO would be the time for calling them out.