The distinction I was making here was "by mistake" versus "done on purpose but acknowledging it was either done poorly or the wrong thing to do". OP said "Mist

The distinction I was making here was "by mistake" versus "done on purpose but acknowledging it was either done poorly or the wrong thing to do". OP said "Mistake was getting caught" which to me implies that he is using the word "mistake" to reduce accountability rather than increase it. I think it's the latter: he's using the word "mistake" to take responsibility for having made a decision his users disagree with (whether or not it's objectively bad, I think is a moot point given the backlash from users). Same clarification he makes in this tweet: "I think you used "mistake" where you meant "accident". I never said it was accidental. We were treating it like a search query (which all big browsers do tag with an affiliate id to get paid from by the search provider). But a valid domain name is not a search query. Fixing." https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/1269421487011713030?s=20 https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/1269421487011713030?s...