Preaching to the choir here but between this and their #WebIntegrity API push for #chrome, Google is getting real authoritarian with their marketshare on browsers.

There will never be a better time to switch to #Firefox than when you read this.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/11/google-chrome-will-limit-ad-blockers-starting-june-2024/

Google Chrome will limit ad blockers starting June 2024

The "Manifest V3" rollout is back after letting tensions cool for a year.

Ars Technica

Goggle's "Web Integrity" project has been widely condemned as a trojan horse for bringing DRM crippleware to the web. The battle against it has been won. But the war against Goggle's attempt to iThing-ize Android continues;

https://9to5google.com/2023/11/02/google-chrome-web-integrity-api/

Hopefully the EU Digital Markets Act is about to do exactly the opposite to iThings. Forcing Goggle to get with the times.

#DRM #CrippleWare #Goggle #WebIntegrity

Chrome not proceeding with Web Integrity API deemed by many to be DRM

Back in July, Google's work on a Web Integrity API emerged and many equated it to DRM. The company announced today it's not proceeding...

9to5Google

Google is certainly not pushing "web integrity" for our benefit. It's all about ensuring that Google can track you and show you ads.

#privacy #ads #google #drm #webintegrity

Google’s “Web Integrity” Android API could kill “alternative” media clients | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/google/2023/11/google-kills-web-integrity-drm-for-the-web-still-wants-an-android-version/

Google’s “Web Integrity” Android API could kill “alternative” media clients

Web Integrity pivots to Android, could permanently kill YouTube Vanced-style apps.

Ars Technica
Chrome not proceeding with Web Integrity API deemed by many to be DRM

Back in July, Google's work on a Web Integrity API emerged and many equated it to DRM. The company announced today it's not proceeding...

9to5Google

Wondering if this is something that @fsf or @eff might be interested in?

This page is good but the url is too long to put on a Letter to the Editor, we think it needs to list more ethical browsers too:
https://www.defectivebydesign.org/blog/web_environment_integrity_is_an_all_out_attack_on_free_internet

What about:
defectivebydesign.org/chrome

A complete #explainer is important to get the message across. Even for technical people.

#chrome #webIntegrity #googleAbuse #advertising #DRM

"Web Environment Integrity" is an all-out attack on the free Internet | Defective by Design

What is a good site, with a short URL where a layperson can go from no understanding of #Google's nasty #WebIntegrity proposal to full or functional understanding of how it threatens the #openWeb and which suggests Firefox-based browsers but **not** Firefox, eg. #Librewolf, IceCat, #TorBrowser, Pale Moon etc?

We will boost good responses, but not CloudFlare, Amazon or other #CAGEMAFIA websites.

This is a legit challenge.

#askFedi

Web Integrity API is a violation of user freedom. This is an absolute DRM.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36817305
#DRM #webintegrity #WebEnvironmentIntegrity
Web Environment Integrity API Proposal | Hacker News

Google's next big idea for browser security looks like another freedom grab to some

Safe to say, this proposal has gone down like a poweroff -fn

The Register

Google's Web Integrity API branded 'attack on the open web'

A working draft specification for a new browser API from Google has raised outcry from the technical community about ethics, trust and adding DRM to the internet.

https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4120904/googles-web-integrity-api-branded-attack-open-web

#technews #webintegrity #google #mozilla #drm

Google's Web Integrity API branded 'attack on the open web'

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#Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a #DRM gatekeeper for the web | #ArsTechnica

Oh, great! Seems we have a 180° turn, and we are now doing the #NetNeutrality 2.0 discussion. Honestly, I always wonder how they think they could possibly implement something like this?

Do they think no one in the tech world will notice and not resist something like this? Do they think this would just result in a 100% conversion rate and every single person would uinstall #Firefox and #Chrome would be the #Netscape of 2023?

Now I understand why they removed the dislike button from #Youtube before they pitched this idea. This is such a #Zuckerberg idea. And the worst part is, he'll probably slap his sticker on this and we'll have this argument again in 6 month's where he'll want to limit the internet to people having VR headsets and being in the #metaverse.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/googles-web-integrity-api-sounds-like-drm-for-the-web/

#infosec #webintegrity #security

Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web

It's just a "proposal," but it's also being prototyped inside Chrome right now.

Ars Technica