EDIT: The Register lists two specific developers who I don't think work at Google "plus others" so if it's Google they have gotten better at astroturfing since the Open Handset Alliance days of yore. It looks like they're lobbying the UK, and I don't think Google admits which lobbyists they pay outside of the US.
It’s been a huge amount of unpaid work, but the entire industry had been held back for so long we felt we had to do something.
People just assume that we’re funded because we’ve stuck a lot of effort in trying to fight anticompetitive behavior. If you read our content though you’ll see it’s not legal/PR nonsense.
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Google's constant stream of web "standards" only they've implemented, AMP (which thankfully is starting to die), and Privacy Sandbox all fold into a plan to control the web.
You might not be paid by them, but please don't take on the "useful idiot" role of helping them control the web because you didn't understand the impact of what you were promoting.
Our aim is to remove barriers and we will fight any anti-competitive behaviour by any operating system or browser vendor but in a priority order.
Priorities are great to have, but yours are wrong and harmful. If you win, we all lose, and I fear you will come to understand it too late.
Safari only competes on one platform and that is MacOS.
If you read through our regulatory submission at https://open-web-advocacy.org/#where we run through this argument in detail.
It should also be important to note that blink is a fork of webkit which is a fork of khtml. There is nothing stoping competition within the chromium browsers as outlined in section 8 of the document.
We want Safari/webkit to succeed.
Google has used a litany of underhanded tactics to obliterate every single browser in an open space. Claiming opening up iOS to competing browsers would be helping Safari succeed is just ignoring history.