Google Blocking Web Privacy Proposals at W3C (2019)
First of all, I've never heard of PING.Second:> Concerned that web privacy issues were being routinely ignored by many working groups of the W3C, the Privacy Interest Group sought to expand its charter, such that it would have the ability to block any new technical specification that it felt would have negative implications for web privacy.This wasn't just that Google "vetoed" a new privacy standard, they actually just vetoed the group's ability to "veto" future standards.Everyone voted for it, except Google.  And that was enough to block it.To Google engineers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VImnpErdDzA