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Chrome security lead Justin Schuh says he is responsible:

"The sole motivation here is correcting major privacy and security deficiencies in the current system. I know, because I set that focus, and the team reports up through me."

https://twitter.com/justinschuh/status/1134092257190064128?s...

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Ugh. Reading this guy's account is just making me depressed. There is not a single convincing or meaningful response to gorhill's excellent and concise twitter thread:

https://twitter.com/gorhill/status/1134127701583904770

All I see is handwavy posturing and tweets like this: "I should know better than to check Twitter after a painfully long day, but I am not dumb enough to actually reply to any of this crap."

This is the person who (by his own claim) is making the call on something that will fundamentally change the entire Internet?

The same person who made these incredibly snide comments on the Chrome password debacle a few years back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6165708 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6166953

Total nonsense. In the manifest document it claims that the change is for performance reasons, not privacy/security. Is it for performance, or privacy/security as he says? If it's the latter, then why aren't they deprecating the observational parts of the webRequest API?

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