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Chrome not proceeding with Web Integrity API deemed by many to be DRM (9to5google.com)

submitted 10 months ago by Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de to c/technology@lemmy.world

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The Chrome team says they're not going to pursue Web Integrity but...

it is piloting a new Android WebView Media Integrity API that’s “narrowly scoped, and only targets WebViews embedded in apps.”

They say its because the team "heard your feedback." I'm sure that's true, and I can wildly speculate that all the current anti-trust attention was a factor too.

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[–] praise_idleness@sh.itjust.works 46 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don't care what Chrome does to fuck every single users possible, provided that it doesn't affect FF.

This integrity thing was one of the worst thing they could've ever come up with that would've definitely affect me.

Fuck them. Fuck with your own users. I ain't one.

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 53 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

That's the problem. They could have made it a requirement for a site to work in Chrome. And since Chrome has such a majority sites would have to comply. Then the other browsers would have to fall in line or just stop working with most websites. Google's monopoly is complete enough that they can dictate how the web works. You need to both care what chrome does and care that other people are still using it or you're just as fucked as they are.

[–] ours@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Please, people, stop using Chromium-based browsers and handing Google a near-monopoly. Firefox is awesome and has even more privacy-oriented derivates.

[+] Engywuck@lemm.ee -8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Bope. I'll continue using Brave, as it's the best browser out there for my use case. Thank you for you concern. Firefox plainly sucks, thanks to Mozilla, and I tell this after having been a FF user, supporter and advocate for almost 20 years.

[–] ours@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What sucks so much in FF?

Yes, performance used to be spotty but this is no longer the case.

[–] Engywuck@lemm.ee -4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

UI/UX/Performance/Mobile app/Slow on Linux/Mozilla (the latter is the worst)

I'm not open to further debate. You asked, I replied. I preferred to migrate to a different browser and never look back, thanks to Mozilla.

[–] realitista@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Your info isn't up to date

[–] Engywuck@lemm.ee -2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, sure /s.

Fuck Mozilla, really. I wouldn't go back to FF even if it was the last browser on earth, as long as it gives oxygen to Mozilla.

[–] gentooer@programming.dev 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If Mozilla were to disappear, Chromium web engine would have a true monopoly. Seeing how bad things are getting with their almost monopoly, I'd like to help avoid that.

[–] realitista@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

I do understand this feeling. It's how I felt when I first left Firefox for Chrome. I would check in every few years for about 10-15 years and see if I was still better off on Chrome, and I was. But then one time, it just wasn't the case any more. I switched back to Firefox and now Chrome feels shitty, slow, and bloated to me.

[–] gentooer@programming.dev 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I've been using FF (and Thunderbird) for about 5 years now on my dual core old laptop running Gentoo, and it's always run pretty smooth. Especially when they switched to the Quantum web engine.

[–] Engywuck@lemm.ee 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Of course. Everybody is having a great time on FF, that why this happens:

https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity

Yeah, surely Chrome/Google/$EandomEvilCorp are to blame, but Not Mozilla, the can't do anything wrong, poor souls /s

[–] gentooer@programming.dev 2 points 10 months ago

I'm not arguing that people are switching to Firefox. I'm only saying that your argument about FF on Linux is just plain wrong.

I also prefer the UI/UX of FF over Chromium based browsers, but that's very subjective of course.

[–] irotsoma@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

Yeah, the current management is so horny to have Chrome be the next Internet Explorer like that. So sad Google has fallen so far.

[–] Nachorella@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 10 months ago

I'm not sure on stats or anything, I know Google has paid a lot of money to get Chrome as a default browser, but I remember a time when it became ubiquitous because the family nerd would tell their parents to use it and so on. It could possibly happen again and have a lot of people switch to firefox because their favourite site stopped working on Chrome. It's the kind of plan that could backfire pretty bad. There's a lot of legal reasons for their hesitance I'm sure, but I think that sort of thing would also play into it. A bunch of parents calling up their children because something stopped working and being told to download firefox isn't outside the scope of reality I don't think.