What Ian Hickson thinks about privacy
British software engineer; editor of the HTML specification at the WHATWG and a founder of Flutter, at Opera Software and then at Google from 2005 to 2023.
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1 dated position, 2023, in their own words. Our reading of what Ian Hickson has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsI often saw privacy advocates argue against Google proposals in ways that were net harmful to users. Some of these fights have had lasting effects on the world at large; one of the most annoying is the prevalence of pointless cookie warnings we have to wade through today.
↗Reflecting on 18 years at Googleln.hixie.ch 1st of 5 in this piece