This is.... just a random internet comment made by a commenter on the chrome bugtracker with no evidence supporting it? What the Chrome team actually said was:
"We've removed support for user stylesheets from Chrome. The feature had many problems. It was used by a very small percentage of our users, was not very user-friendly (e.g. you need a high level of technical ability to use it) and was slowing down our ability to make improvements in other parts of the product.
Chrome extensions allow you to inject CSS stylesheets into pages, so it would be possible for someone to create a Chrome extension that replicates this functionality in a more user-friendly way"
You can agree with this logic or disagree with it, but it had absolutely nothing to do with Accounting or Legal in any way shape or form. Why are people acting like the linked comment has anything to do with reality?
Because the comment has been published two years ago in a bug tracker controlled by the Chromium devs and yet to be removed, so it almost reads as if the chromium devs agree with it and happy it didn’t come from their own accounts!
Nobody on the dev team is reading those messages for their own mental health, people are just shouting into /dev/null and that closed issue is lost in the noise of a hundred thousand other closed issues and never gets looked at.
Personally I prefer to lock old closed issues almost immediately to cut this off, but leaving them open so that people can shout into the void is another possible choice.
did you read any of the comments in that thread? they're almost all critical and insulting towards the Chromium dev team, and not a single one of them has been removed (Although one comment seemingly from a dev was deleted, probably by the person who made the comment). The Chromium devs don't often remove any comments. The fact that they haven't decided to remove this one is absolutely not evidence of anything
This is an account linked to a gmail address with no other comments on the tracker. Is there any evidence this is/was a Google employee and not just a random troll in the issue tracker?
Seems like there's a means to accomplish the same thing, and the title here is editorialized. (and makes it sound like it's a statement from Chromium, which it doesn't seem to be.)
Every engineer who has worked at some SaaS has experienced some form of this (and it's no silver lining). This particular comment does not look legit though.
I thought the whole point of these “open source” Google projects is to give an autonomy to the developers in makings decisions, so I’m quite astonished that the devs cannot make the simplest of the decisions to comply with web standards without fear of losing their jobs!
"We've removed support for user stylesheets from Chrome. The feature had many problems. It was used by a very small percentage of our users, was not very user-friendly (e.g. you need a high level of technical ability to use it) and was slowing down our ability to make improvements in other parts of the product.
Chrome extensions allow you to inject CSS stylesheets into pages, so it would be possible for someone to create a Chrome extension that replicates this functionality in a more user-friendly way"
You can agree with this logic or disagree with it, but it had absolutely nothing to do with Accounting or Legal in any way shape or form. Why are people acting like the linked comment has anything to do with reality?