Google's New Web Environment Integrity Proposal Dismissed by Brave, Mozilla, and Vivaldi
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  • 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.de
    14·
    1 year ago

    That’s good, but as long as Chrome has 2/3rds of the browser market share, it doesn’t really matter what other browsers do.

    At this point I think the thing most likely to derail WEI are the US Congress and the EU. Google is flirting with getting forced to split-up like AT&T and this may be the last straw. They may decide it’s not worth the extra attention from law makers to move forward with it.

  • f00f/eris@startrek.websiteEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    I hope that the rest of the space including the W3C sticking to their guns and opposing Web Environment Integrity prevents this from doing too much damage, but Chrome’s monopoly is already at such an extent that many websites only test on Chrome, and a few outright require it. As long as this is implemented in Chrome, and if people who use it get more return from ads as the proposal suggests, some websites will be willing to implement it.

    This is definitely seeing more and stronger opposition than the Encrypted Media Extensions proposal, but my fear is that it will go in that direction; if big websites implement it, Mozilla, Vivaldi, and W3C will eventually cave despite their initial opposition.

  • Fibby@lemm.ee
    33·
    1 year ago

    I’ve been using Chrome forever and been thinking more and more of switching back to Firefox.

    I’m just too lazy :(

      • Fibby@lemm.ee
        2·
        1 year ago

        You’re right. Today’s the day. After work I’m switching to Firefox, again.

        • Owljfien@iusearchlinux.fyi
          1·
          1 year ago

          If you find any issues like Google services not working quite as well on Firefox, don’t forget you can spoof your user agent to look like Chrome so you still get the extra features such as live scoring for sports etc in search.

          • cognitive@kbin.social
            1·
            1 year ago

            And if anyone here wonders how, there are extensions for Firefox to spoof your user agent agent on a site-by-site basis.