Don't. · Issue #28 · RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity
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Sometimes you have to ask the question whether something should be done at all, and trusted computing is certainly one of those cases where the answer is obviously a big fat NO. So please reconside...

the API is called Web Environment Integrity, and it’s a way to kill ad blockers first and a Google ecosystem lock-in mechanism second, with no other practical use case I can find

  • Steve@awful.systemsEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    This is why every full-stack engineer who celebrates the chromium browser dominance because they don’t have to worry about css and js browser compatibility should be slapped. The I/O conference is the biggest ad disguised as a “we care about the web” community event of them all.

    • Steve@awful.systemsEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      Google meet is the only product on the web I’ve seen in the last 5 years that still says “these features don’t work in your browser”

      • Steve@awful.systemsEnglish
        6·
        1 year ago

        Gecko and WebKit are open-source. If google cared about the web they’d contribute to the other engines as well.

        • self@awful.systemsOPEnglish
          6·
          1 year ago

          I see you have also been forced to use google tech and consume google’s awful developer docs and deal with their laughable UIs (how does anyone use google analytics for any purpose?) because the only thing corporations are comfortable with is garbage as far as the eye can see

            • self@awful.systemsOPEnglish
              4·
              1 year ago

              it’s a terrible day when you realize the stack for a new project was chosen based only on google’s unearned reputation for making good software