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# The ugly, geeky war for web privacy is playing out in the W3C
- URL: https://werd.io/the-ugly-geeky-war-for-web-privacy-is-playing-out/
- Published: 2021-07-13T16:31:19.000Z
- Updated: 2021-07-13T16:31:19.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: #Import 2025-06-13 09:24

“The W3C is under siege by an insurgency that's thwarting browsers from developing new and important privacy protections for all web users. "They use cynical terms like: 'We're here to protect user choice' or 'We're here to protect the open web' or, frankly, horseshit like this," said Pete Snyder, director of privacy at Brave, which makes an anti-tracking browser. "They're there to slow down privacy protections that the browsers are creating."”

\[[Link](https://www.protocol.com/policy/w3c-privacy-war)\]