Re:The HTML “ping” attribute is disabled in Firefox
by dininski on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @05:40AM
(#19672293)
This clearly shows the different priorities for Google and Mozilla, amid the current feud.
Mozilla is advocating towards a free and open internet, where the web standards are not dictated by the monetization strategies du-jour. Meaning that ads and tracking are not inherent to the internet itself, but serve a more corporate interest.
This is where Google comes in. It feels more like they consider the internet more of a platform for business growth and are no longer that unbiased.
As an example - I wouldn't be surprised if at some point they start pushing for adding product metadata to the HTML spec, say a <product> tag. This would essentially change some of the semantics of the standard. Maybe a more generalized version of this: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/data-types/product
Mozilla is advocating towards a free and open internet, where the web standards are not dictated by the monetization strategies du-jour. Meaning that ads and tracking are not inherent to the internet itself, but serve a more corporate interest.
This is where Google comes in. It feels more like they consider the internet more of a platform for business growth and are no longer that unbiased.
As an example - I wouldn't be surprised if at some point they start pushing for adding product metadata to the HTML spec, say a <product> tag. This would essentially change some of the semantics of the standard. Maybe a more generalized version of this: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/data-types/product
Just my 2¢.