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"Web Environment Integrity" is an all-out attack on the free Internet (www.fsf.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/2546109

Read why "Web Environment Integrity" is terrible, and why we must vocally oppose it now. Google's latest maneuver, if we don't act to stop it, threatens our freedom to explore the Internet with browsers of our choice.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

lemm.ee was talking about using cloudflare (i can't remember whether he went through with it), which will almost certainly implement this. lemmy.world already does. there is no good outcome from this going through where this only blocks google sites from firefox.

even if there was, that still means you can't open any gdrive links you find on the internet, use a youtube tutorial to fix something, use the play store to buy any apps (because if they integrate this into chrome, they will integrate it into the play store), etc.

edit 2023-08-10:

hey guess what engywuck, lemm.ee uses cloudflare now:

image showing the cloudflare "edge ip restricted" page for lemm.ee

good luck accessing lemm.ee from non-chromium if this goes through

in fact view you probably won't be able to view any embedded youtube videos at all. people would have to go back to hosting their own videos which would push hosting costs up, which would raise the barrier of entry to people making their own sites. which is something we want to encourage

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I couldn't care less about YouTube, Gplay or GDrive. And people hosting their own videos is a good thing, in my opinion.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Hopefully this can be stopped.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Then we'll just have to build and migrate to alternatives, which is preferable anyway. That's how the internet was supposed to be.