Maybe if he presented it to the Hacker News crowd, for which the popular opinion seems to be that anything less than 100% privacy is acceptable.

You know this, but plenty of people, including me, prefers free content to paywalls at every corner. That Google is ramping up efforts in trying to improve privacy while maintaining the viability of free content providers is very positive.

What's interesting anyway is what mechanisms they'll implement. I'm intrigued about the fingerprinting budget: how well will it really work?