The wah wah wah wah Google is evil club is so tiring.

There are so few impositions they've created. On the other hand, they are creating wonderful fantastic improvements. Good generic sensor capabilities. Service Workers, so we can do offline web.

People bitch endlessly & i think they are just so full of shit. I don't mind luddites, but at least be informed luddites. The web needs to grow, needs to get better. It's the best tech humanity as a whole has, that isn't captured, and complaints that investing in making the web better "put barriers to entry" as you say in place are uninformed & irresponsible.

The big thing most of the complainers don't seem to have any respect for is that very very very few of the improvements to the web are required. Almost all specifications are orthogonal. Some browsers will support the feature, some wont. That is ok! The web is designed for that! It works! Just because Google implements awesome sweet new super capabilities that rock doesn't mean the bar has to be that high. That's not what the web is about.

The "BS" features are, actually, incredible. Watching Mozilla & Apple team up to bitch & complain that ambient light sensor is some huge threat? What a bunch of losers!! Such bellyaching! Sorry but it's cool that my personal website can offer the option to show a night/dusk/dawn/day view, it's just stylistically cool. Willing yourself to see only the harm, to only regard features as bad is a tragedy. Denying the web capabilities, calling them BS is so overplayed, so narrow minded. A small & sad for us. It's just a tragic thing to see, & so pervasive, from such a grouchy salty segment of the world. I want to call it astoturfing but I it's probably all too often genuine & truthful griping, just a narrow view that some old fashioned view of the web as being a small, narrow, for only what we already know thing is The One True Way and that anyone doing more is an Abomination. There's extreme conservatism in software engineering, extreme fear. It's a sad thing to have to endure, such narrow view. The web doesn't deserve this view.

Meanwhile, here's this operating system which refuses to allow anyone to access the web in any way what so ever except from Officially Approved internally developed (& tragically behind) browsing technology.

To try to lay blame at Google's feet, to try to turn this narrative like this from how malicious & how holding things back Apple has been, to casting emotionally ladden harping-upon-fear anti-progress scaremongering is DISINFORMATION. This is a malicious enemy against progress that seems pervasively present, highly organized, but which also has marshalled endless disenfranchized salty narrow minded geeks to fight hte battle for this misinformation. It's endlessly frustrating seeing Google continually slandered. There are some semi-dubious works they do. FLoC looks bad. But look at the alternatives that the ad industry is doing, where they are building cross site super cookies & spreading information in unblockable fashion. Look at how easy it would be to block or adjust FLoC as a user, to rewrite the header, to deny the data. Most of the specs go through the trustable, respectable w3c reviews with little serious objection, because they make sense, because they are straightforward advances. The arguments against Google's web development efforts are hot air, are built on general fear & misunderstanding, in 99.99% of cases. I'm so done with it. It's hurting us. The uninformed, slanderous, irrepsonsible, unqualified Google slandering? As bad as Apple's iron fisted cruel monopoloy & their long long long long long war against the web.