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The world needs to stop looking to a global data broker who feeds data to advertisers as a legitimate and good faith steward of Web technologies. It violates t
by zlg_codes 3y ago
The world needs to stop looking to a global data broker who feeds data to advertisers as a legitimate and good faith steward of Web technologies.
It violates the separation of concerns between server and client, for starters. Clients are user agents, i.e. they do what the user wants, not what the server wants. This fundamental misunderstanding/skewing of perspective is part of the problem.
If we want HTTP(S) and friends to remain a free and open protocol for all, we have to cut Google out of the decision-making process. They've been behind Encrypted Media Extensions, they've been behind Manifest v3, and now WEI.. The Web doesn't belong to Google. They can go do QUIC and leave HTTP alone.