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by ocdtrekkie 2523 days ago
Browser vendors effectively are the ruling party of the Internet at the moment. And Mozilla can mostly only follow Google's lead, as Chrome is (basically) everyone's browser. It doesn't matter what you put on your server if Chrome, Firefox, and Safari refuse to accept it. Whether it's the trusted certificates list, or features of HTML and JavaScript, or decisions about what sort of web content will trigger the browser to block parts of your site, browser developers determine what the public will see.

The best part here too is that Mozilla's link on revocation basically says "we understand sometimes it's more risky to revoke according to our policy than to take a little longer, we just don't care and will utter our disappointment in you either way".