Google is already pushing WEI(DRM Webpage) into Chromium

Time to De-Google I guess. I will keep using Firefox and if or when I come across any website pulling this crap I won't hesitate to blast them to eternity. I suggest everyone else do the same please.

De-google, anyone?

It's small, but here's a real actionable item that you can do to help:

Put a gentle "Use Firefox" (or any other non-Chromium-based browser) message on your website. It doesn't have to be in-your-face, just something small. I've taken my own advice and added it to my own website: https://geeklaunch.io/ (Only appears in Chromium-based browsers.)

We can slowly turn the tide, little by little.

Copy and paste:

<p>
    This site is designed for <a href="https://firefox.com/">Firefox</a>,
    a web browser that respects your privacy.
</p>

(I also posted this on the HN discussion.)

Hacker News discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36876301

IE in the 2000's called, it wants it's dream back.

Between this, hobbling adblockers and performing enough monopolistic acts to warrant swift government action, I really see this more as Chrome dying than the web itself.

Honestly this won't effect me a ton, though I wouldn't be surprised if I have to boot up a windows virtual machine just to check my bank in a few years cause my bank doesn't know what Linux is and doesn't want go trust it. I'm mad about it but given slowly but surely I've been replacing everything with FOSS stuff. I just fear one day they will force you to use corpo approved software to use WiFi , or get cell service

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So this is a problem for all browsers based on Chromium right???

Question for anyone with more understanding of the implementation…

Doesn’t this still presume the browser tells the truth to the third party attester? Could we not build something that just straight up lies to the attester? Says I’m a good Google chrome user with no extensions please serve me ads sir?

Can you explain to someone not so tech savy what this means?

Is there anything a person can do about it, other than using Firefox and degoogling?

from https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/1053748

https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/wei-wpt-other

https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/wei-wpt

these showed up after Jul 21 per GitHub “contribution activity” but are retroactively dated to 13 - they were probably private before that.

Please comment any information under this post and create cross-links to any possible posts - to create comprehensible information source.

What is WEI?

Shamelessly stolen from the HN thread:

Don't just comment and complain, contact your antitrust authority today: US:

• https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/report-antitrust-violation
• antitrust@ftc.gov

EU:

• https://competition-policy.ec.europa.eu/antitrust/contact_en
• comp-greffe-antitrust@ec.europa.eu

UK:

• https://www.gov.uk/guidance/tell-the-cma-about-a-competition...
• general.enquiries@cma.gov.uk

India:

• https://www.cci.gov.in/antitrust/
• https://www.cci.gov.in/filing/atd

Email template:

I would like to bring your attention to Google’s recent proposal to add a feature to its Chrome (Chromium family) of browsers called Web Environment Integrity. This provides a mechanism to reinforce Google’s already dominant browser market position by creating a technological control that can be used to nullify a user’s choice of browser, device and operating system. This technology also has the potential for abuse by preventing users from using browser extensions that can enhance security by blocking unwanted and potentially malicious content, as well as browser extensions that help vulnerable users with enhanced accessibility needs, such as color blindness and visual impairment.

Google’s dominant, near-monopoly position in the browser market already harms me as a consumer by reducing browser choices and preventing a competitive market for developing new browsers. Allowing Google to include this feature will reduce my browser choices and consolidate the browser market even further, and it is incumbent on [INSERT AUTHORITY HERE] to take action against this abusive behavior.

People saying de-google like google isn't in the position Microsoft was in when they killed Netscape. It's over y'all, once it's in chromium it's the standard, period. The open web is dead.

Edit: ok, be in denial then.