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It will be back. Somewhere along the line the kinds of people who push these sorts of things realised that it doesn't matter if everyone hates the thing and it
by jeffparsons 3y ago
It will be back. Somewhere along the line the kinds of people who push these sorts of things realised that it doesn't matter if everyone hates the thing and it gets temporarily "defeated". If you can afford to keep reinventing the same thing under another name, you can get the outcome you want through sheer persistence. See also: surveillance laws.
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- AnthonyMouse 3y agoThe key is to keep aggressively attacking the ones that already exist. If they have to be constantly vigilant to things from getting better, they won't have as much time to spend trying to make it worse. And sometimes they'll lose and you'll actually make things better.
- marak830 3y agoThe tiring part is that, we have to be vigilant and won every time. They have to win once. The tables are stacked against us.
- ryandrake 3y agoSee also: any unpopular law. It has to be fought and defeated every time, but only has to succeed and pass once.
- winternewt 3y agoShould it not be easier to remove laws than to add them?
- JoshTriplett 3y agoIt should be. It isn't.
- kevincox 3y agoThe only way to stop it coming back is to remove their ability to implement it. If Chrome was <20% market share it doesn't really matter how many harmful APIs they have because very few sites would require them. As long as they remain popular they will continue to sneak in these features, then other browsers will have to adopt them or face extinction because websites don't work on them.