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It's a bit of a weird quote because it's not at all apparent how business cases for markup features would be decided on. Chrome is full of stuff that isn't obvi

It's a bit of a weird quote because it's not at all apparent how business cases for markup features would be decided on. Chrome is full of stuff that isn't obviously beneficial to Google's core business (WebXR? WebMIDI?), yet MathML is about enhancing the parseability of information in crawlable documents which you'd expect to be a priority for a search company.

csande17 4y ago
Standards like WebMIDI are used for fingerprinting.
- IshKebab 4y ago
  That's not good for Google though. They have an incentive to not allow fingerprinting, both because it's illegal so they don't do it, and also because most people are logged into Chrome so they don't need to do it.
  - csande17 4y ago
    Do you have a source on fingerprinting being illegal? A lot of website privacy policies mention that they will collect "information about your device hardware configuration" or similar language.
    - kmeisthax 4y ago
      EU GDPR says otherwise. Furthermore, using fingerprinting to bypass do-not-track functionality (e.g. Apple's App Tracking Transparency) will get you slapped with an FTC fine or lawsuits. Hell, Google knows this intimately, because they got caught bypassing P3P[0] with a bogus privacy policy string[1]. [0] P3P, or Platform for Privacy Preferences, is an obsolete standard for specifying machine-readable privacy policies from a combination of standard attributes. IE6 enforced it, AFAIK. [1] https://www.networkworld.com/article/2186056/google-says-ie-privacy-policy-is-impractical-in-modern-web.html https://www.networkworld.com/article/2186056/google-says-ie-... https://www.cio.com/article/296774/security0-google-sued-for-violating-apple-browser-privacy-protection.html https://www.cio.com/article/296774/security0-google-sued-for...
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