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At the time this story takes place Chrome didn't have a way to collect web feature usage metrics broken down by site. It was aggregated across all sites to prot
by esprehn 6y ago
At the time this story takes place Chrome didn't have a way to collect web feature usage metrics broken down by site. It was aggregated across all sites to protect user privacy. That came years later with Rappor: https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/rappor https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/rappor
WebSQL usage was too high at the time to remove though, so while the story is fun to read Chrome never would have actually turned it off.
- shaneos 6y ago[author] Hard to say. If Google leadership had heard of this vulnerability, right as they were launching Google+, there would at least have been a serious conversation about it. They spent $Bs to build Google+, changed their whole company structure to support it, and were losing hundreds of people to FB every month. I doubt bending one little rule about removing a deprecated technology would have bothered them too much.