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Mozilla opposes Web Integrity API proposal (github.com)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/firefox@lemmy.ml
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[–] 48 points 3 years ago (12 children)

Google already rolled out AMP which is overtly hostile to an open internet and faced zero repercussions from it. The same will be true for this. The average person has no idea what this means, doesn't care, and won't be bothered by it. Politicians always side with big business.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 years ago (7 children)

    I'm hoping the average user will be sufficient annoyed by the lack of adblocking to finally give a shit.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    Average users view the web raw, this will go totally unnoticed by >90% of users. If web-drm becomes a thing then it will be easy enough to block those sites and add them to the list of media that is morally acceptable to pirate.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Is there any reason Firefox or anyone else can't just draw blank elements over the ads to block them on a separate layer? That way the site still thinks ads are being displayed. Kind of like the browser internal version of cutting out sticky notes and pasting them over your screen to cover the ads.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Firefox could get litigated for ad fraud and these trusted 3rd parties could block firefox from accessing the sites. It won't work.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    The most valuable sites are already advertisement free. Anyone remaining who implements this standard just reduces their viewers. People will do without or other sites will offer an alternative. The tech is doomed to fail because the consumer is always right.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago* (3 children)

    Politicians always side with big business.

    That's not true at all as far as EU tech company regulations are concerned. Examples: laws for GDPR, right to repair, consolidated charging ports, minimum size & pricing roof on roaming data - and related fines for disobeying them.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

    There is a German ARD Video about Open Source. The EU Parlament is big in with Microsoft products and don't want to change because they are idiots.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Same goes for local authorities. Munich even had its own Linux distro, then M$ opened a big office in the city and suddenly whole FOSS project was abandoned and everything runs on Windows.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Noone had issues, everything was fine. Everyone was against using Windows in the parlament vote. The president or smth who was part of Microsoft had the full decision and just went with it. Fucking creepy. Humanity was a mistake.

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