Comment on Chromium Blog: Towards HTTPS by default
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 10 months agoIf we have to pick just one reason: WEI. As someone who’s been a professional software engineer for a decade and a half, this has the potential to mutate and ruin the internet at large in ways we’re only beginning to fully explore and understand.
Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Second reason: killing manifest v2 to kneecap ad-blockers.
Third reason: banning ‘trackmenot’ extension from the chrome store since its purpose is to muddy search stats (enhancing privacy, but in a way that messes up Google’s ad metrics and their history of your preferred search terms).