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Google's New Web Environment Integrity Proposal Dismissed by Brave, Mozilla, and Vivaldi
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this post was submitted on 01 Aug 2023
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Any website that implements this API is going to immediately lose me as a user. They can go fuck themselves.
websites that will implement this API:
websites taht won't implement this API:
I hate that you're probably right.
I wish you are right. The potential problem I see is if Chromium browsers implement this and smaller websites are able to get away by violating their user base privacy without significant losses.
Except you won't have a realistic choice.
I like that sentiment, but how would you even know?
But if said website is your bank's website then you will also have to go change banks and refinance your mortgage, or give up on internet banking. And there could be lots of implications like that we haven't thought about yet. Wanna buy something using Paypal? You are shit out of luck if they get on the Google DRM train. It's looking bleak, but hopefully it'll be seen as being monopolistic if Google is the only one who chooses to implement it, and are thus seen to be abusing their market power to block websites from working properly on other browsers. If Safari and Edge also decide to implement it then we are all probably all screwed though.
I'd honestly look for an alternative financial institution that either has an app that implements whatever security they think they need or doesn't implement this DRM bullshit for their website.