They will release it and then will engage their network of developer advocates and business representatives to try and make developers pressure Apple and Mozilla.
These are add-on features, not core cookie functionality.
I’m glad Google pushed a Web USB and Web Bluetooth. I use Web USB / Serial for a browser based microcontroller debugger. I use Web Bluetooth through the Bluefy app to control some Bluetooth devices without App Store apps.
Firefox’s excuse that “security risks of exposing USB devices to the Web are too broad to risk exposing users to them or to explain properly to end users to obtain meaningful informed consent” is infantilizing its users.
I’m a Firefox user, but I have Chrome installed for Web USB. I’d rather a feature exist controversially than not at all.
Where have you been for the past decade? Users provably don't understand security implications of their choices
The entire ad industry in its current form, the entire tracking industry exist solely because of that. Users routinely allow malicious apps full-system access just because those apps ask nicely.
I'd rather not have features than have them rammed through by a company whose only claim on profitability is running ad networks in a web they increasingly control.
And yes, the "core cookie technology" that Google proposes only makes tracking easier.
They will release it and then will engage their network of developer advocates and business representatives to try and make developers pressure Apple and Mozilla.
Just some examples of one such rhetoric: https://twitter.com/slightlylate/status/1191027005342404608 and https://twitter.com/slightlylate/status/1369773901610250240 and don't forget, what's missing is your advocacy: https://twitter.com/slightlylate/status/1360364259088027655