Google proposed Web Bundles could threaten the Web as we know it

Google = evil!!! They sleep and dream only about how to spy! Teach your users at every place, at each of your site not to use there spyware & "search engine". Instead of this use privacy search engines, browsers and tools. eg. privacytoolslist.com

Three of three comments where you add the URL. It can quickly look like you only comment to self-advertise.

This is an idea I had, an alternative to web bundles and solves the same issues.

Inside a HTML file, we introduce an attribute for embedded resources called cache=”identifier”. Script tags, style tags will have this attribute defined. There would also need to be an embedded image introduced. Inline all your resources. The browser will fetch the HTML and add whatever has the cache=”identifier” to its cache.

Then when the browser fetches a page, it will send a Cache-Got header, this is a bloom filter serialized of identifiers cached.

The server will check the bloomfilter to see if an item needs to be sent to the client and exclude the contents of those embedded resources with an empty script tag or empty style tag.

EDIT: Why is this being downvoted?

I think their idea is to combine that with signing the bundles, so a page from www.someserver.com can be served by anyone, aka Google. I guess this would mean Google can serve all content on the web.

There seems to be a strong urge in Google to cut the connection between then endpoints of the web and become the central authority. Make all traffic flow through their machines. Let no information arrive at the endpoints.

Right now, requests on the web are kind of p2p. A user requests a website, the publisher serves it any way they see fit. Directly via their servers or via a CDN of their choice.

Google seems to have a strong focus on ending this. Turning the web into Googlebook / AOLoogle.

I wonder why. Do they see their business model threatened on the open web? Or do they see a chance to increase their profit with a closed web?

Kind of.

It is already be possible today to put ads into a page directly.

But the benefit for Google would be that if they deliver the bundle, they would know that their ads are in there. Heck, they would know everything that is in there. So they would have full information about all ads and everything that is taking place on this new "web".

Of course, they could also use the opportunity to hinder ad blockers further. For example by not allowing plugins to get between reading the bundle and rendering it. They already weakened plugins a lot over the recent years.