Peter Gordon 🇺🇦Switch to Firefox.
Edit: Google have now ditched WEI, but this still shows why it's important to have competition in the browser space.
Kohane@Lumpbucket Can someone explain in a way that is understandable and practical to the general population what Web Integrity is? I just checked and all the articles sound like gibberish to me.
🪨@kohane @Lumpbucket It's essentially allowing websites to check if the requests come from a "legit" source. Google's argument is fighting against fraud and whatnot, but it means that website can limit content to whatever does not implement WEI and has a trusted source, essentially being a DRM for how you browse the internet. Can it limit fraud and web scraping by bots stealing your data for training ML models? Sure. Can it be used to block whatever the authorities (in this case Google) don't like? Abso-fucking-lutely. This is a terrible decision that essentially kills the freedom of browsing the internet from whatever you want.