Google also handles more traffic then almost any company on the planet, so their involvement in a discussion about transporting bits is, well, not really that shocking.
The issue is that you're throwing around them being an advertising company as a negative without any discernible proof that it has negatively affected the outcome.
What, specifically (and please spare us the 'rhetorical flourishes') has been proposed that is unfairly biased towards advertising? Which parts should we be skeptical about?
It's not advertising that I'm skeptical of w/r/t Google. It's their amount of capital.
E.g., relating to the ASCII/binary discussion above:
A binary web would require advanced retooling and therefore investment. Smaller business entities are not in such a strong position to deal with such a large shift in their workflow. Therefore, switching to a binary protocol would disadvantage entities smaller than google.
Sure, but bigger and smaller scale operations have different needs. The internet isn't supposed to be about what's best for the big guys, it's supposed to be about what's best for humanity.
The "specifics" in the other threads are more ad hominem. You're saying "we should be wary of what Google does" without actually mentioning what's there in the spec to be wary about. You're saying "we shouldn't trust Google to pass specs unchecked", people are saying "but we aren't: we've read the spec, and it's good", and you're saying "yeah, but we shouldn't trust Google".
Sure, the general trend is a good point, just not entirely relevant to this specific thread. Your comment above does make good points about the actual spec, I agree.
The issue is that you're throwing around them being an advertising company as a negative without any discernible proof that it has negatively affected the outcome.
What, specifically (and please spare us the 'rhetorical flourishes') has been proposed that is unfairly biased towards advertising? Which parts should we be skeptical about?