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Google as a company just does not care. No amount of pointing out violations of web standards or norms is going to make them care and statements such as this only amount to indignation-fueled, self-congratulatory rhetoric.

> > The internet is for end users: any change made to the web platform has the potential to affect vast numbers of people, and may have a profound impact on any person’s life. [RFC8890]

That ship sailed when the W3C accepted EME. The internet ceased to be about the end users, but for media company and their DRM. They didn't have to accept it as a standard, if Google and Netflix wanted their own DRM system then their problem, not the web.

You can easily pretend you're respecting the priority of constituencies if you (i.e. Google) just say that the needs of web page authors are the needs of users ("otherwise the websites users want to visit would disappear").

I.e. home taping is killing music, VCRs should be illegal, etc.. Amazing how the same lie remains effective after being proven false so many times.

Yeah... executive stakeholders will fire you on the door spot if you come in with that sort of excuse. "How do you assure that our intellectual property, which is worth billions of dollars, is uncompromised?"