Privacy is as much about adding features as removing them. Rewriting APIs that no one else have the manpower to reimplement and update for decades is a bigger problem than adding privacy invasive features. Google could easily make changes big enough that it would break for example Brave's ability to add the features it wants. Like a new API that cannot be used by adblockers as effective as the old one..
>Privacy is as much about adding features as removing them
This is a perspective that's often missing from discussions surrounding web APIs. These APIs aren't just about what cool new things legitimate developers can do with them. They're also about what they'll enable bad actors to do. APIs must be designed defensively, otherwise we risk users feeling [even more] unsafe on the web.
