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Usage limits don't apply to deprecations and removals
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Document the long-standing policy of not enforcing limits on deprecation trials and the [new](https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/R0xKm1B7qoQ/m/VGetQK2IAwAJ) policy that extends it to trials of feature removals.
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its usage exceeds a small percentage of all Chrome page loads. This is designed to prevent
individual web sites, and large populations of the web, from depending on experimental features.

Deprecation trials are not subject to such limits as they are not introducing a new feature and
therefore there is no risk of depending on experimental features. Similarly, trials where
existing functionality is removed are not constrained as the same risk doesn not apply.

The standard usage limit for a trial is 0.5% of all Chrome page loads, based on the same
statistics as in [Chrome Status](https://www.chromestatus.com/metrics/feature/popularity). The
usage is measured in a way to allow for temporary spikes of higher usage. In rare exceptions, a
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