Preaching to the choir here but between this and their #WebIntegrity API push for #chrome, Google is getting real authoritarian with their marketshare on browsers.
There will never be a better time to switch to #Firefox than when you read this.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/11/google-chrome-will-limit-ad-blockers-starting-june-2024/
Goggle's "Web Integrity" project has been widely condemned as a trojan horse for bringing DRM crippleware to the web. The battle against it has been won. But the war against Goggle's attempt to iThing-ize Android continues;
https://9to5google.com/2023/11/02/google-chrome-web-integrity-api/
Hopefully the EU Digital Markets Act is about to do exactly the opposite to iThings. Forcing Goggle to get with the times.
Google is certainly not pushing "web integrity" for our benefit. It's all about ensuring that Google can track you and show you ads.
#privacy #ads #google #drm #webintegrity
Google’s “Web Integrity” Android API could kill “alternative” media clients | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/google/2023/11/google-kills-web-integrity-drm-for-the-web-still-wants-an-android-version/
Chrome not proceeding with Web Integrity API deemed by many to be DRM
https://9to5google.com/2023/11/02/google-chrome-web-integrity-api/
#tech #technology #software #webintegrity #alphabet #google #drm #www #web #internet
Wondering if this is something that @fsf or @eff might be interested in?
This page is good but the url is too long to put on a Letter to the Editor, we think it needs to list more ethical browsers too:
https://www.defectivebydesign.org/blog/web_environment_integrity_is_an_all_out_attack_on_free_internet
What about:
defectivebydesign.org/chrome
A complete #explainer is important to get the message across. Even for technical people.
What is a good site, with a short URL where a layperson can go from no understanding of #Google's nasty #WebIntegrity proposal to full or functional understanding of how it threatens the #openWeb and which suggests Firefox-based browsers but **not** Firefox, eg. #Librewolf, IceCat, #TorBrowser, Pale Moon etc?
We will boost good responses, but not CloudFlare, Amazon or other #CAGEMAFIA websites.
This is a legit challenge.
Web Integrity API is a violation of user freedom. This is an absolute DRM.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36817305
#DRM #webintegrity #WebEnvironmentIntegrity
Oh vas-y c'est quoi ce bazar encore ?
https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/25/google_web_environment_integrity/
Google's Web Integrity API branded 'attack on the open web'
A working draft specification for a new browser API from Google has raised outcry from the technical community about ethics, trust and adding DRM to the internet.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4120904/googles-web-integrity-api-branded-attack-open-web
#Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a #DRM gatekeeper for the web | #ArsTechnica
Oh, great! Seems we have a 180° turn, and we are now doing the #NetNeutrality 2.0 discussion. Honestly, I always wonder how they think they could possibly implement something like this?
Do they think no one in the tech world will notice and not resist something like this? Do they think this would just result in a 100% conversion rate and every single person would uinstall #Firefox and #Chrome would be the #Netscape of 2023?
Now I understand why they removed the dislike button from #Youtube before they pitched this idea. This is such a #Zuckerberg idea. And the worst part is, he'll probably slap his sticker on this and we'll have this argument again in 6 month's where he'll want to limit the internet to people having VR headsets and being in the #metaverse.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/googles-web-integrity-api-sounds-like-drm-for-the-web/
At least part of the reaction to #Google #WebIntegrity is that it disregards the polite fiction of #UserAgents completely. #Firefox #Brave and #Safari are being told point-blank to serve the interests of #advertisers or be kicked off Google services.
As others have pointed out #Apple has already quietly implemented similar behavior, but because it was advertised as a way to make #CAPTCHAs less annoying, nobody cared.
