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A peaceful protest againt Web Environment Integrity
A peaceful protest is underway against mega corporations attempting to impose DRM on the web, aiming to gain control over all content possible and making our lives worse.
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I will sign your pathetic CLA when Kent Walker publicly apologizes for retaliating against Claire Stapleton and Meredith Whittaker. How about that?
Web Environment Integrity is named almost as honestly as The Patriot Act.
This would be terrible for the web and for humanity. It must not be allowed.
Don't forget to report this repo and @RupertBenWiser's "proposal" as malicious code.
This is a blatant attack on the fundamental privacy and security of all web users, intentionally and crudely bypassing W3C and directly attacking open web standards. By infiltrating the Chromium project like this, rather than trialling it in their own Chrome browser, Google are intentionally seeking to infect the vast majority of Internet users' devices without most of them even knowing, even if they intentionally boycott Google over this attack. If WEI is implemented in web browsers, all users will be held hostage by companies to only use approved devices in approved ways to access approved websites, being tracked and exploited while doing so. This is infinitely malicious in every way except holding a knife to someone's throat.
Then uninstall / disable all Chromium browsers on your devices and replace them with Firefox and / or Fennec F-Droid.
I don't understand; isn't Chromium supposed to be a version of Chrome that removes all the horrible corporate sins?
I don't understand; isn't Chromium supposed to be a version of Chrome that removes all the horrible corporate sins?
You're thinking of ungoogled chromium. Chromium is controlled by Google.
LGTM, stops giving corporations with monopolistic power from trying to control everything.
So much for "Don't be evil".
Also something like this wouldn't just be DRM, but a breach of privacy... because how else are they going to sell you bs without tracking your every move?
It would be nice if the one place for meaningful debate was not restricted. https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity
Not to mention most of the users concerns are still not answered. Most of the problems listed in the explainer are even solved by the WEI as those problems are not a problem with the "Integrity of the users environment" and more of a problem of "abusing sign up requirements" or phishing links among others.
I could spin up 100 linux/win11 VMs all with "Environment Integrety" and still use them as bot accounts because the sign up requirements of said websites didn't change...
Maybe Im missing something about the proposal and I would love clarification, but the more I read the more it seems it will cause more issues with privacy and security than it actually solves.
Again I would love to discuss this on the actual proposal repo if it wasn't restricted. These are serious concerns for the future of the open web.
I gave this proposal a lot of thought lately. I think it is admirable how loyal Ben Wiser, Borbala Benko, Philipp Pfeiffenberger and Sergey Kataev are to their employer.
In fact they must be certain they will be employed by Google for the rest of their careers. I just hope Google is as loyal to them as they are to Google because I wouldn't hire any of them and I imagine many of us wouldn't either.
Q: Oh you worked for Google, very nice. What did you do there? A: I worked on killing the open web. And we failed so my manager cancelled the project, happens often at Google. He somehow became a VP, though. Q: Oh don't be so harsh on yourself, we all had to work for companies that didn't represent our values at some point. A: No, it was my project.
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My contribution is my middle finger.
Use my JavaScript library if you want to prevent any WEI-enabled from accessing your website. https://github.com/Young-Lord/fight-for-the-open-web
Lets's take action now. https://github.com/Young-Lord/fight-for-the-open-web
Imagine waking up and having to work on a dead proposal.
How very sad. 😂
Management needs updates on the WEI, come on. All this hard work won't be for nothing, right?
Should higher ups perhaps have checked if this proposal has any chance to land at all? No, not really because your time and labor are dispensable and nothing but a cell in a spreadsheet to them.
And where were you when the decision was made to disable comments and issues on the repo for your proposal?
How did you justify it to yourself?
"We are going to get a pushback on this so we should disable these"
Was that it? So you knew you are turning against the community that you are standing on the shoulders of. You must have expected to be shunned. Well none of this should come as a surprise to you then.
And for what, RSUs to vest over the course of 4 years, for Google? What is this, 2012?
Google has always been evil No wonder scams still manage to bypass adsense
Don't implement this, Web-DRM is fully unacceptable, this is anti-competitive and destroys the open web.
No to DRM - Period!
If you are a webmaster, add this script to your website: https://github.com/Young-Lord/fight-for-the-open-web
Sounds good, but I think instead of adding it that way, it would be a better idea to get a copy of the script file and add that directly, after you inspected it. That is, to avoid modifications you don't know of. But also subscribe to any new releases so you know if there is an important change.
Edit: also, if you use this, theres an open PR that wants to make it more informative, so dont forget to check back later.
