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userbinator on Jan 21, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google Blocking Web Privacy Proposals at W3C (2019...

Indeed, Google has been controlling the "web standards" for many years now.

chii on Jan 21, 2021 [–]

they control by defacto means because of chrome.

But they can leverage this control and make it legitimate by making their POV the main POV in the web standards working group, and this is what they are doing right now (removing veto powers from other concerns in the group).

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