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People called me crazy when I told them that Google was leveraging open source to enact their version of an EEE strategy to kill the open internet. But here we are. They embraced open source, expanded Chromium with unethical practices, and now that they have the monopoly of the space and the main voting power on the W3C, they are ready to destroy all that is free and open about the internet.
I’ve been warning about this for a long time, and people were like nah, it’s open source… I saw this coming miles away.
I will continue to use Firefox and Safari while I still can.
I am once again asking users to consider the eventual abandonment of web browsers. It is too big and complex for competition to actually create new ones, so this was inevitable.
[No offense intended to those working on important changes in forks, just saying proportionally it’s only a minor diff, no?]
Wait, what? What alternative do you suggest? Apps and App Stores?
If the site is more complex than displaying raw text and links (to download files, and other pages), yes.
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I noticed that too and I dumped Chrome for FF on every machine I use as soon as I read about this
Wondered how to deactivate the auto update of Chromium in the setting. There is no checkbox to untick. You have to twiddle with the regedit to deactivate updates. WTF?
Guys, Firefox (or LibreWolf) all the way!
The article refers to Vivaldi’s response as scathing, but I think it is fair and even and the best overall summary I have seen -> https://vivaldi.com/blog/googles-new-dangerous-web-environment-integrity-spec/
Google has been so far very quiet on this issue. I wonder why.
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Seriously, why though?
Hopefully they prevail, I will be telling everyone I know to switch to firefox, and additionally changing my parents devices to they as well. Thankfully these days it’s really easy to do so
This is perfect. The more browsers refuse to implement this, the more the antitrust against Google is going to sting.
I haven’t been following this. What’s happening?
google is introducing an API for websites to request a cryptographic attestation that your browser is the official version that it claims to be - that is, not some other browser pretending to be chrome, or a modified version of chrome. apple has had an API to do this for years, and nobody seemed to mind that, but google is pushing it as a standard that any browser could implement and that’s made a lot of people very angry.
the main concern seems to be that it will squeeze smaller browsers that don’t implement it out of the market. in response, smaller browsers are apparently choosing not to implement it.
Google is trying to add code to it’s chromium software that would functionally allow for DRM between you and a website. It would be a huge blow to your ability to control ads and what software runs on your PC when you connect to a site.
Shitty google doing shitty things. Just business as usual
