This is, after all, half the reason for making Chrome in the first place, right? All better protocols will start as proprietary protocols. To make the web better, faster, larger, yes, Google adds features to Chrome, and of course some of those are at the protocol level.
If the feature is actually an improvement, it should be on for everyone that's able to run the code as soon as possible. Ship fast and break nothing.
To address a different aspect of your comment, I do think it's very interesting how little attention we pay to the packets of data sent between software running on our personal devices and remote servers. Slap some TLS on it, and nobody even notices.
I think there's a fundamental OS level feature, and a highly visible UI component which is outright missing, allowing users to understand no just what programs are connecting to where, but what are they actually sending out and receiving. If it didn't have such horrendous implications and failure modes, I would love to have highly functional deep packet MitM proxy keeping tabs on exactly what my computer is doing over the network. You know, or the NSA could publish a JSON API to access their copy?
This is - as a personal, opt-in debugging tool something I have dreamt if for some time. However, I'm curious what horrendous implications you see there. Could you explain?
If the feature is actually an improvement, it should be on for everyone that's able to run the code as soon as possible. Ship fast and break nothing.
To address a different aspect of your comment, I do think it's very interesting how little attention we pay to the packets of data sent between software running on our personal devices and remote servers. Slap some TLS on it, and nobody even notices.
I think there's a fundamental OS level feature, and a highly visible UI component which is outright missing, allowing users to understand no just what programs are connecting to where, but what are they actually sending out and receiving. If it didn't have such horrendous implications and failure modes, I would love to have highly functional deep packet MitM proxy keeping tabs on exactly what my computer is doing over the network. You know, or the NSA could publish a JSON API to access their copy?