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They'll rename it and reintroduce it subrepticiously, just as they did with ~~FLoC~~ Topics API.

• whywhywhywhy 3y ago
  > Topics API Really messed up having something so far reaching and giving it such an innocuous name a normal person couldn't possibly understand the implications of. Definitely an evil mind behind that one.
• dsr_ 3y ago
  "surreptitiously"
  • coldacid 3y ago
    Maybe the GP is also insinuating that Google is full of reptilians?
    • fmajid 3y ago
      No, just a native French speaker, where the root word is "subreptice".
      • dsr_ 3y ago
        In the time honored way of English, we stole it from you and changed the spelling to match our crummy pronunciation.
        • fmajid 3y ago
          Well, it happened sometime after 1652: https://www.dsl.ac.uk/entry/dost/surreptitiously https://www.dsl.ac.uk/entry/dost/surreptitiously
          • dsr_ 3y ago
            Also in the time-honored way of English, we didn't really standardize spelling for another 200 years. Then we started being really pedantic.
            • fmajid 3y ago
              And (Norman) French was the official legal language of England from 1066 to 1362, at a time it wasn't even the official language of France itself (that only happened in 1539 with the ordinance of Villers-Cotteret replacing Latin in legal documents). To this day some ceremonials of Parliament like the King's Assent to promulgate legislation are still in Norman French.
• schleck8 3y ago
  Internet Runtime Robustness API