I mean, it was under the radar to begin with. It wasn’t on any main google channels, it was mostly only discussed by the developers who handled the project.
The only reason people know about this to begin with is because there were fortunately a lot of people paying attention. I remember the first time I saw anything about it was on HackerNews and it was straight from the dev. Maybe it was even just the github. Either way, it was not advertised in any major way other than not outright being hidden.
When it originally hit, I remember arguments about how its “just a few developers,” and “we’ll wait until it actually ends up in chrome” and so on. The whole point was that it was still relatively early on in development and was just at proposal stage. This thankfully went from obscure developer news to big worldwide general tech news and Google backed down… for now.
We can be thankful developers with consciences are paying attention, in the meantime.
These, if I am correct, were the original links on HackerNews from around 4 months ago. Not exactly major advertising blitz from Google or anything, mostly wonky/technical documents.
They will try it again in like two to three years from now. This time they will just do a under the radar and somewhat diluted version of it.
I mean, it was under the radar to begin with. It wasn’t on any main google channels, it was mostly only discussed by the developers who handled the project.
The only reason people know about this to begin with is because there were fortunately a lot of people paying attention. I remember the first time I saw anything about it was on HackerNews and it was straight from the dev. Maybe it was even just the github. Either way, it was not advertised in any major way other than not outright being hidden.
When it originally hit, I remember arguments about how its “just a few developers,” and “we’ll wait until it actually ends up in chrome” and so on. The whole point was that it was still relatively early on in development and was just at proposal stage. This thankfully went from obscure developer news to big worldwide general tech news and Google backed down… for now.
We can be thankful developers with consciences are paying attention, in the meantime.
These, if I am correct, were the original links on HackerNews from around 4 months ago. Not exactly major advertising blitz from Google or anything, mostly wonky/technical documents.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36778999 / https://chromestatus.com/feature/5796524191121408
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36817305 / https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity