cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/2546109
Read why “Web Environment Integrity” is terrible, and why we must vocally oppose it now. Google’s latest maneuver, if we don’t act to stop it, threatens our freedom to explore the Internet with browsers of our choice.
More and more people in the industry saying that Google is trying to implement it under false pretenses of making the web safer for the end user. But I guess for most it was obvious?
What can we realistically do, shouldn’t we be making more noise on the wider internet about this? I already use Firefox, and am barely using any service from Google, doesn’t seem enough.
I can only hope that major players will somehow shame Google out of this obvious enshittification effort. That’s probably naïve.
I think realistically, even if we did raise enough of an uproar, and the major players did actually pay attention enough to get Google to back down, they’d just wait 6 months and implement it anyway with a different name, or keep grinding away until people are too tired and distracted to fight it anymore. That seems to be the general playbook for stuff like this.
So I assume it will be implemented, and those who don’t care will just put up with it, and those who do care about it will either figure out how to break it or just learn to live without certain things online I guess.
goodbye adblock goodbye anything not chromium based goodbye fun
Oh, it’s worse then that: you want to scrape some content, cut and paste content, save an image, save a stream of music/video - "oh… sorry, you can’t do that Dave cause the command line tool/3rd party website/gui isn’t trusted, but if you subscribe to our ultra premium package you can have some of that functionality unlocked (but just for our site) or you can watch some ads. "
Sounds like the Trusted Computing shit that was pushed onto processors, and can make running Linux more difficult.
Chrome has really become the new IE
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