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wow, they are not completely beyond redemption, it seems
Redemption implies there was a character to redeem.
It's a business, and it's business is intricately locked into goals that match what Web Integrity API stood for. It may be gone now but everyone needs to watch twice as hard. They'll just try to ease people into the idea more carefully.
people make decisions, not businesses
The number of people involved in the decisions of companies: many of which do not have any actual reason to care about the livelihood, reputation, or ethics of said company...should make it fairly clear that you cannot assume or perceive a company in the same way you do a person.
Most of that's just lobbying PR anyway to give companies more leverage against...well...people