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Michael Veale (mikarv@someone.elses.computer)'s status on Sunday, 15-Jan-2023 22:00:46 JST Michael Veale
@w3c @tag reject Google’s in-browser ad-targeting system Topics again. (minutes: https://w3c.social/@tag/109682533903910546) @robin notes Topics has ‘little chance of a credible future’. Now Google say they will ignore standard-setting; they are “committed to Topics” and “moving forward” https://www.businessinsider.com/web-standards-body-w3c-rejects-googles-ad-targeting-proposal-2023-1. Chromium’s dominance makes standards a convenient charade for G’s power.
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  TAG minutes from this week: https://github.com/w3ctag/meetings/blob/gh-pages/2023/telcons/01-09-minutes.md We talked about View Transitions, Topics API, IMSC-HRM, UI Events Values (closed), the Computer Pressure API. We also started a discussion on how web standards should use the new JavaScript Sumbole.dispose protocol: https://github.com/w3ctag/design-reviews/issues/794
2. One of Google's big plans to replace third-party cookies just hit a huge setback that it might not recover from
  
  from Lara O'Reilly
  
  Web standards group the W3C has said Google's Topics API ad-targeting proposal "falls short" on privacy. "We do not want to see it proceed further."

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