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Google abandons Web Integrity API proposal · After a backlash, Google is no longer pursuing its plan https://ilo.im/15f8u9
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#Business #Advertising #Google #Chrome #Browser #WebDev #WebIntegrityAPI #Privacy
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GrafcubeYour choice of browser matters — Google's Web DRM and the open internet
https://grafcube.codeberg.page/blog/2023/08/06/web-drm-api.html
I wrote this blog post to inform the people I know who aren't as tech savvy or otherwise don't put any thought into their choice of browser. Another goal is to help get enough awareness on the topic and make sure it fails.
@opensource @privacy #webintegrityapi #WEI #google #mozilla #chrome #firefox #chromium #foss #opensource #OpenWeb #privacy #drm #nodrm #drmfree #freesoftware #browser
Jan AndrleNice summary of about the Web Integrity API (Google DRMs the Web) by Niccolò Venerandi
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLaePqv5Sec
- Article: https://blog.nicco.love/google-drms-the-web/
Google's Web DRM is Worse than I Thought...
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Aral BalkanIf you’re developing web sites that only run in Google Chrome, you are not a web developer, you’re a web destroyer.
#google #chrome #WebIntegrityAPI #WebDRM #web #dev #SiliconValley #adtech #PeopleFarming #SurveillanceCapitalism
Yoann Aubry@sebsauvage chromium embarque vraiment la mise à jour #webIntegrityAPI ? N'y a t'il pas moyen de la désactiver ?
Aleksei DuriaginGoogle’s Web Integrity API proposal is absolutely unethical and against the open web #webintegrityapi
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Emelia/EmiSomething I noticed about the #google #webintegrityapi stuff is that the "safety mechanism" they put in ('holdbacks' where attestation is not guaranteed for every request) is perfect for almost exactly one use case: "verified ad views". Probabilistic attestation is perfectly fine there, because all it means is a few views won't be counted as "verified", despite rendering the attestation itself almost functionally useless for anything of consequence (assuming there's no protections against a site's JS just repeatedly fetch()ing an endpoint until an attestation occurs or a defined number of tries is reached)
This is even more obvious with the big scandal on their "verified views" side of things where it turns out they weren't actually that 'verified' at all. It not only gives google the ability to verify that a "real browser" made the request, it gives them the ability to correlate which browser made the request, if they were illegally colluding between their attestation and adtech divisions.
Cory DoctorowHey look at this
* Google’s nightmare “#WebIntegrityAPI” wants a #DRM gatekeeper for the web https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/googles-web-integrity-api-sounds-like-drm-for-the-web
* retract this proposal https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/Ux5h_kGO22g/m/5Lt5cnkLCwAJ
* Lawsuit From Hell: The Battle Over a Kids’ Gym https://www.washingtonian.com/2023/07/24/how-a-battle-over-a-kids-gym-turned-into-the-lawsuit-from-hell/ (h/t John Barnes)
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