Notices by Francisco Tolmasky (tolmasky@mastodon.social), page 2

Mozilla should call for a vote on the removal of Google from the W3C over the implementation of Web Environment Integrity. "But Chrome has 65% market share, what good is the W3C without them?” If Google can take unilateral action to fundamentally change the basic principles of the web, then the W3C is *already* useless. This will give Google a clear choice: if they want to maintain the idea that the W3C matters, they should withdraw this implementation.

https://github.com/chromium/chromium/commit/6f47a22906b2899412e79a2727355efa9cc8f5bd

/cc @mozilla

This Safari query parameter removal thing is just going to become a cat-and-mouse game, right? Google can easily start using gclid2 or even switch to using something like “a,” that you'd be less willing to indiscriminately chop off the URL. Eventually, you could even imagine a dynamic query key scheme, where you can identify it with a credit-card-style hash function. For example, if f(KEY) = (char1 + char2 + .. .+ charN) % 64 = 39, then it knows that that query key is its tracking ID.

OK now someone do the equivalent of Threads but for Google search. You know, just make an exact copy of the way it worked perfectly fine 10 years ago, but have it seem new and amazing since the original decided to make itself unusable.

Dear God *PLEASE* make the Apple VR Headset a smashing success so that Tim can just fucking kill off the Apple Watch without affecting his ego, and I don't need to sit through this guy telling me about fucking Snoopy on the completely redesigned watchOS ever again. #WWDC23

It would be *incredible* if there's no Apple VR headset and it was all a massive troll to get us to sit through a 20 minutes presentation on PDF organization on iPadOS 17. #WWDC23