Your choice of browser matters — Google's Web DRM and the open internet

https://grafcube.codeberg.page/blog/2023/08/06/web-drm-api.html

I wrote this blog post to inform the people I know who aren't as tech savvy or otherwise don't put any thought into their choice of browser. Another goal is to help get enough awareness on the topic and make sure it fails.

@opensource @privacy #webintegrityapi #WEI #google #mozilla #chrome #firefox #chromium #foss #opensource #OpenWeb #privacy #drm #nodrm #drmfree #freesoftware #browser

If you’re developing web sites that only run in Google Chrome, you are not a web developer, you’re a web destroyer.

#google #chrome #WebIntegrityAPI #WebDRM #web #dev #SiliconValley #adtech #PeopleFarming #SurveillanceCapitalism

Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/googles-web-integrity-api-sounds-like-drm-for-the-web/ #Google #DeGoogle #DRM #WebIntegrityAPI

@sebsauvage chromium embarque vraiment la mise à jour #webIntegrityAPI ? N'y a t'il pas moyen de la désactiver ?

Hey look at this

* Google’s nightmare “#WebIntegrityAPI” wants a #DRM gatekeeper for the web https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/googles-web-integrity-api-sounds-like-drm-for-the-web

* retract this proposal https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/Ux5h_kGO22g/m/5Lt5cnkLCwAJ

* Lawsuit From Hell: The Battle Over a Kids’ Gym https://www.washingtonian.com/2023/07/24/how-a-battle-over-a-kids-gym-turned-into-the-lawsuit-from-hell/ (h/t John Barnes)

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Regarding Google's Web Integrity API:

- I'm pretty sure I would not care if advertisers thought I was an animated peanut browsing the internet in search of dried husks
- Hopefully all the spammers and misinformation centers will implement this so it becomes easier to block them
- The usage of "integrity" is as amusing as if it was used by a politician

#webintegrityapi #google

#webintegrityapi #chrome
Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web | Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/googles-web-integrity-api-sounds-like-drm-for-the-web/

#Google #OpenWeb #DRM #WebIntegrityAPI: "The goal of the project is to learn more about the person on the other side of the web browser, ensuring they aren't a robot and that the browser hasn't been modified or tampered with in any unapproved ways. The intro says this data would be useful to advertisers to better count ad impressions, stop social network bots, enforce intellectual property rights, stop cheating in web games, and help financial transactions be more secure.

Perhaps the most telling line of the explainer is that it "takes inspiration from existing native attestation signals such as [Apple's] App Attest and the [Android] Play Integrity API." Play Integrity (formerly called "SafetyNet") is an Android API that lets apps find out if your device has been rooted. Root access allows you full control over the device that you purchased, and a lot of app developers don't like that. So if you root an Android phone and get flagged by the Android Integrity API, several types of apps will just refuse to run. You'll generally be locked out of banking apps, Google Wallet, online games, Snapchat, and some media apps like Netflix. You could be using root access to cheat at games or phish banking data, but you could also just want root to customize your device, remove crapware, or have a viable backup system. Play Integrity doesn't care and will lock you out of those apps either way. Google wants the same thing for the web."

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/googles-web-integrity-api-sounds-like-drm-for-the-web/

@Vivaldi : have you made any decisions or plans regarding the #WebIntegrityAPI #WebEnvironmentIntegrityAPI / #DRM gatekeeper / #WEI #API that Chrome is proposing?

#webintegrityapi
#гугл опять пытается закрыть #интернет при помощи непонятной хуйни. Надеюсь у них это не получится.