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"Web Environment Integrity" is an all-out attack on the free Internet (www.fsf.org)
submitted 1 year ago by salient_one@lemmy.villa-straylight.social to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] salient_one@lemmy.villa-straylight.social 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can only hope that major players will somehow shame Google out of this obvious enshittification effort. That's probably naïve.

[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I think realistically, even if we did raise enough of an uproar, and the major players did actually pay attention enough to get Google to back down, they'd just wait 6 months and implement it anyway with a different name, or keep grinding away until people are too tired and distracted to fight it anymore. That seems to be the general playbook for stuff like this.

So I assume it will be implemented, and those who don't care will just put up with it, and those who do care about it will either figure out how to break it or just learn to live without certain things online I guess.