Google abandons “Web Environment Integrity”

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨SummerBreeze@monero.town⁩ to ⁨privacyguides@lemmy.one⁩

https://simplifiedprivacy.com/google-abandons-web-environment-integrity/

Google has abandoned the “Web Environment Integrity” API that was supposed to allow websites to only allow approved and verified browser environments. The plan would allow websites to reject modifications that were “unattested” for the purpose of supposedly stopping bots, piracy, ad-blocking, and other activity Google deemed to be malicious. However, critics of the plan called it corrupt tyranny in which Google flexes it’s muscles to control the entire internet. But now…

simplifiedprivacy.com/google-abandons-web-environ…

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BlackPit@feddit.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Taking the win. Celebrating the fact there was a big enough backlash to get Google to pull their head in.

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- Facebones@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I switched back to Firefox and un-installed any chromium browsers at the news.
  
  I will now be talking all credit for affecting this change and sharing it with nobody else. You’re welcome, internet! 🙏
  
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  - Darorad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Thank you for your hard work
    
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  - errer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I did the same thing you did. I’m sure the numbers were modest but Google must have noticed the trend…
    
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  - CowsLookLikeMaps@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Unironically, thank you.
    
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  - runswithjedi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Same, we did it!
    
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Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Abandoned for now. Maybe.

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- intrepid@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Of course. You didn’t think that they would take back a user-hostile greed-motivated feature without an alternative, did you?
  
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  - DieguiTux8623@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    One can use a different mobile OS if they don’t like Android at least.
    
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SGG@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Sadly with all this evil crap now days, they’ll bring it back in a few weeks or months, rename it to the "won’t somebody think of the children API"with a massive ad campaign saying anyone or any website not using the API are r*ping kids…

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deweydecibel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Great news, but horribly written article. Feels like AI or someone with a high school writing level.

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- SummerBreeze@monero.town ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  The main difference between the register article and this one is the register is optimistic that Google will stop. While as the comments in this chat clearly indicate alternative views.
  
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- SummerBreeze@monero.town ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I’m sorry to hear you did not like the writing
  
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- gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I mean it probably was written with AI.
  
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  - smokingManhole@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    AI writes better than that.
    
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  - SummerBreeze@monero.town ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    It is not written with AI
    
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Blizzard@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I don’t believe them. They will try to do it again, slightly modified, under a different name, but they WILL try to introduce it again.

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- gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  And for round 2 they’ll try to be sneakier about it
  
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  - intrepid@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    No. That’s round 3. Round 2 is already announced - they are ‘restricting’ environment integrity to multimedia on Android webview. Of course, what they don’t say is that the feature is going to be developed and tested outside the view of the general public - since this doesn’t need to go through a public standardization like web specifications. Once they get that perfected, they will silently expand its scope outside webview and gradually into browsers with a new name. That’s round 3.
    
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ebits21@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
GOOD.

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disconnectikacio@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Disgusting piece of craps! All should continue to open eyes, against google. They wont stop!

Spread the word to install firefox based browser, use different frontends to block youtube ads in browser, Invidious and use piped youtube apps on android to block youtbe ads: Newpipe

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- intrepid@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  While I agree with your sentiment, I really wish people use something that’s not YouTube. I wish peertube or even paid platforms like nebula take off.
  
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sphere_au@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
This was an utterly terrible idea to begin with and it’s still a terrible idea for Android apps as well. Apart from messing with ad blockers, this has the ironically “helpful” feature of allowing malware to be force loaded into your browser. If it ends up in Android, some popular app that uses it will get owned and then every user of the app will also end up getting owned as well.

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- Boomkop3@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Google is already sort-of imposing similar restrictions on Android trough their near monopoly on the play store and play protect
  
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- Boomkop3@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Great idea for Google, terrible for everyone else
  
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Papanca@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
They will tweak the most unimportant detail and say; we listened to you, now take it!

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spez@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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Overlock@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
…yet.

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- kubica@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Sorry that you didn't like it, I'll have to ask later.
  
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