Not to mention being able to implement various technologies that are useful for their other products and have them be usable on the web for the majority of users without having to wait for someone like Microsoft or Apple to implement them first.

Google's tracking of Chrome users in incognito mode from the server-side is not something nefarious, it's the same tracking they do to every browser. They got sued for not detecting incognito mode, something they can't do. It would be more anti-competitive if they gave themselves a way to detect incognito mode and not track Chrome's incognito users but still tracked every other browsers' equivalent.

What about if your email address is associated with something like Ashley Madison?

https://www.troyhunt.com/ashle...

WordPress isn't really configured to host a mirror locally. Given that WPE has been accused of having a "hacked up, bastardized simulacra of WordPress's GPL code" just for changing a config value to default to not storing revisions by default, I doubt adding in functionality to have mirrors or different plugin/theme repos would be received well by WordPress.com/Matt/etc.

I think they mean that it isn't like the typical repository system used in things like most Linux distros, F-Droid, etc. Any plugins like ACF Pro have to implement their own update systems, not just add a repository and have things be managed similarly to the wordpress.org sourced ones.

Or using a VPN that has an IP shared by others who are either infected or malicious.

This nanny state is needed because many users won't or can't maintain their own security. Things like warnings about unsafe sites, password checkups, and more help protect people from not just getting their accounts or devices compromised but also protect other people's data that they have in those accounts or devices (like the 23andMe 'breach'/credential stuffing).

Isn't it using hash prefixes though, not a full hash?

Also, Google isn't the one running the privacy server that sits in the middle between your client and their secure browsing server in this case: Fastly is.

This can be disabled using the setting described here: Choose your Safe Browsing protection level in Chrome

Settings > Privacy and Security > Security > Safe Browsing

The Linux container you can use to run Linux apps in on ChromeOS uses Debian by default but the underlying OS is still based on Gentoo I believe.

How would this interact with country specific laws like delayed streaming requirements to allow for theaters have exclusivity for a time or requirements to devote a certain percentage of revenue to funding local content of a country?

Would a streaming service just have to abide by the most restrictive country's rules and do something like wait months until a movie is allowed to be streamed in France for example?

I'm not sure why people seem to forget the other parts of the DMCA, one of which is the safe harbors that protect sites from being liable for content by users that infringes on someone else's copyright as long as they take it down. Without it, sites would just be sued directly for the copyright infringement and they'd go away or stop allowing people to post anything. Giving a clear process for takedowns (including counter-notifications) is better than the alternative, even if there is some abuse.

In order to deter the false ones, they just need to actually go after those that perjure themselves claiming they're the owners (or their representatives) of something they don't actually own instead of leaving it to someone like Google to enforce in civil courts.

The choice is between them having broad immunity to copyright suits for user uploaded content by taking things down according to the DMCA versus being liable for $750-30,000 per work infringed by not. No company that hosts even a fraction of the user uploaded content that they do is going to make any choice other than the one that gives them that safe harbor.

Uh, it pretty much does if they want to keep their copyright liability protections intact (which would be ruinous if they didn't have them).

They do more than just a poop emoji for those, they turn the whole thing red with a warning about deceptive sites:
https://safebrowsing.google.co...

The main problem is it's a constant whac-a-mole game of new bad sites popping up, so it probably doesn't get seen as often as it should if they were perfect at it.