"They are seeing things that are authentic and genuine and truthful, and when they find out that is not the case, they get very upset." - CHRIS PALMER, Sounds Natural, 99% Invisible #99PercentInvisible #99pi #SoundsNatural #ChrisPalmer
And like those men, the programmers behind this harebrained scheme don't imagine that it will ever apply to them. As #ChrisPalmer - who worked on Chromium - points out, this is not compatible with normal developer tools or debuggers, which are "incalculably valuable and not really negotiable":
https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/Ux5h_kGO22g/m/5Lt5cnkLCwAJ
This proposal is still obscure in the mainstream, but in tech circles, it has precipitated a flood of righteous fury:
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/googles-web-integrity-api-sounds-like-drm-for-the-web/
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