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Google tries to defend its Web Environment Integrity (techreport.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I'm happy to see this being noticed more and more. Google wants to destroy the open web, so it's a lot at stake.

Google basically says "Trust us". What a joke.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So bad actors are certainly not kept at bay

My biggest problem is that it actually makes things easier for bad actors when you set them in stone, because there's more things that they know they can count on to happen a certain way.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah, moreover you give server admins the illusion that they CAN control what happens client side, which is bonkers.
Honestly the most infuriating thing in this whole controversy is that the proposed approach fix almost none of the issues that the authors say their proposal should fix.
What it does however is break the open web principles in major ways.