How is it different than police departments buying access to license plate scanner / location data?

I'm not justifying that either. But it is already in common use. Seems if one's legal, both should be. And vice versa, can this be used as the basis to challenge the legality of police departments hoovering up all the data they already do?

I hate to say it, but I smell politics here, but I'll take it if it might reverse bad policies. But I'm not optimistic it will be pursued to any meaningful result.

Isn't HTML 5 still a "living standard"? Who's to say webkit isn't the modern face of HTML5? Even firefox is trying to be as close to chrome as possible.whatwg just needs to catch up.

Two reasons for concern. First, as others have mentioned, all software has bugs or needs updates to keep up with changing ecosystems. I'm assuming a locked repo means no updates. Second, I'm assuming that the puzzle piece icon which makes it easy to enable things like recaptcha requires constant care and feeding.

The ongoing updates needed are for things like the puzzle icon that make it easy to enable 3rd-party youtube without an account or other sites that have a list of required things (like recaptcha) to enable to work. Figuring out requirement can be difficult sometimes.

This is part of what bugs me. Most of the day, I can walk out on my front porch and look in all directions and not see another person. I can walk to and from the convenience store and maybe only see 10 people total. And in the store we wear masks. It's the Governor's decree and it's not unreasonable. But having to wear a mask any time you are out of the house is an over reaction here.

I understand that in dense cities, you can't stand on the street without breathing down someone else's neck. But that's not a reason for mandating masks nationwide.

It would be like me, living in a state along the Canadian boarder, lobbying for a "mitten mandate" from November to February so no one gets frostbite. In my area, we do have to cancel school on rare occasion because kids will get frostbite on any exposed skin in under a minute, but I know my "mitten mandate" makes no sense in Florida or California.

Don't pester my area with mandates to address issues we don't have so we can better focus on the problems we do have, like making school effective during the pandemic, dealing with college kids returning to campus & acting like idiots and trying to keep people in elderly homes safe without making them feel like they are in solitary confinement.

The first part of your comment got me thinking, there should be a surprise urine test either before the debate or at least before taking office. There are far less importent jobs where employers get to demand one. Why should the American people get to demand one of every elected official?

As has been pointed out by another, this comment deserves a little more attention. It does not offer support for possible intent on Google's part, but the description of the mechanism is missing in the other threads I've looked at

How was the malicious code able to collect the data they were not to have access to? Did they find a bug that allowed them to circumvent one or more security measures? Were there actual technical security measure that needed to be circumvented? Is this merely a contract violation? Security measures implemented "on paper" are not security measures. I suspect they is like circumventing security on DOS or Win95.

Using "they" as a 3rd person, singular pronoun bugs me much like using "we" as a first person, singular pronoun does. It seems to say something that's not intended. (Implying a multiple person disorder, or that the one is acting a representative of others, etc)

Not going to disagree with you, but it makes me laugh ... your disagreement reenforces with the assertion you disagree with.

Personally I support the developer's right to post as he has.and would not be offended if others did the same. I'm aware of times that other developers posted things on their pages I disagreed with, but I don't argue that they should have the right.

But if you want me to stop using your software, start littering it with political popups. Even ones I do agree with. That's intrusive, I disapprove just as I disapprove on ad popups & campaign popups and I'd dump the software that encourages it.

I do like the idea of a campaign to force a government to de-platform something popular & useful because it is afraid of people being exposed to dissent.

I don't think so. I wasn't aware of political speech on Tik Tok's web site or it's developers being politically active in a way to get it banned. I believe the concern with Tik Tok was that it might be used as a surveillance tool by the Chinese government. But I haven't been follow either very closely.

OK. I'm truly confused. How does not seeing the malicious URL in the address bar make me "safer"?

I still consider it malware that the browser allows a page to display a different URL at the bottom of the page than it will send me to if I actually click on it. Was that a security feature too?

Citation please. I've never heard anyone complain about China being far less stringent than Trump.

Then, by that reasoning, Mozilla need to get Google to post on they webpages that Firefox is required to take full advantage of their services and they need to make Firefox the default browser on more major platforms.

It's no different than when every website said you had to have internet explorer to view their pages and when average users needed help to switch default browsers, because the incumbent browsers were intentionally difficult to replace.

We reference the past so we can learn from it and apply those lesson to the present and future.