I stopped trusting google when they decided to remove the "Do not be evil" clause
this post was submitted on 29 Jul 2023
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guess money and having a (near to) monopoly changes any company
While you are at it, convince Apple to allow Firefox on iOS, and decline to use WEI in Safari. Otherwise there's no way to avoid WEI on iPhone, and only one mainstream rendering engine free of this insidious malware. Many companies will shy away from it if it breaks mobile apps on the Apple platform.
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Well passed time to do some monopoly busting.
Monopoly busting. Ecosystem lock-in. Right to repair. Software patent reform. Privacy and AI regulation.
What do lawmakers even do these days anyway?
What do lawmakers even do these days anyway?
Accept bribes. Insider trading. Forment outrage.
Screw the proletariat, mostly
There's no way there's a legitimate argument why this is good for us/the internet
Would WEI stop Adblock by DNS? Like pihole or similar ?
Basically it's a way for a "third party" that's chosen by the web server to verify the environment where the front end code is running meets its standards. Those standards would be up to the third party. So I'd imagine if an assessor said "hey, we can verify ads load properly" or even "we verify this extension isn't running" then many sites would possibly choose those assessors. It also is blatantly deceitful because of all the issues it suggests it can fix, it doesn't actually fix any of them. And many of them aren't even that big of a problem.
From my very basic understanding of it yes. It in effect checks what's loaded against what was served and if there's a discrepancy it does its thing.
Note. If I have misunderstood please someone correct me.
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