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A peaceful protest against Web Environment Integrity (github.com)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by mrmanager@lemmy.today to c/technology@lemmy.world
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I thought this was kind of a fun way to show discontent with Chromiums added Web Integration - someone made a pull request to simply remove it.

Its already been approved by a lot of us, why not add your approval as well? Click the Approve button and add your name to the list of people supporting the removal.

Google will of course not care but I thought it was a fun gesture.

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[-] ddnomad@infosec.pub 46 points 2 years ago

Done

[-] porkins@lemmy.world 44 points 2 years ago

For anyone scratching their heads

[-] raltoid@lemmy.world 62 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

With the TL;DR being: Google/Alphabet wants to more easily block non-chrome browsers ability to use their services, and prevent the use of adblocking.

Which also means that many people using accessability tools will be unable to access them. And they are trying to get Firefox to implement it as well, so they don't take all the blame when shit hits the fan and they start getting multi-billion dollar monopoly fines from the EU.

[-] mrmanager@lemmy.today 61 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's ad blocking and entire operating systems, or computers configured in any way they don't like.

If this goes through, they can force you to install any plugins they wish, or disable any plugins they wish. Or make sure you don't run Linux and only Windows or Mac. They can force you to have your camera on. They can do anything since they make the rules.

No innovation will take place. Competing browsers or software will not be allowed or manipulated into marketed as "unsafe".

This is a takeover of the open web stack as we know it.

[-] ZILtoid1991@kbin.social 24 points 2 years ago

They also could use it to slowly push ChromeOS-only features and services. Don't forget they have their own "OS"!

[-] Libertus@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago

Also Louis Rossmann published a video about it: https://youtube.com/watch?v=0i0Ho-x7s_U

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[-] kitonthenet@kbin.social 33 points 2 years ago

https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/pull/98

This one’s my favorite

[-] dingsbums@feddit.de 31 points 2 years ago

im doing my part

[-] zombuey@lemmy.world 31 points 2 years ago

worth noting you can sign the CLA and you vote is not just a protest but a legitimate vote.

[-] Ruthalas@infosec.pub 13 points 2 years ago

Can you give more detail on this?

[-] Ultra980@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago

Don't forget to report the proposal as malicious code!

[-] spaceduck@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

How do I do that?

[-] Ultra980@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

In the repository, there's a button on the right that says "Report this repository". Click on it, then select malicious code and other type of malicious code. Make sure to specify it's against the free, open web and w3c standards!

[-] spaceduck@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Done, thanks.

[-] Goodie@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago

If you want to protest that much just use Firefox...

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 35 points 2 years ago

Chromium is by far the dominant browser engine. What they do is effectively the standard and implemented by websites and thus approved. That's why this has to be stopped there.

[-] Durotar@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Google doesn't care about this protest because it has no real impact on their business. This is more of an emotional thing, this is for us. I'm not saying that people shouldn't fight. But in reality, spreading information about the upcoming change and urging people to switch to other browsers (along with replacing other services) is the only thing that could produce tangible results in the long term. Hence, I tend to agree with the user above.

[-] mrmanager@lemmy.today 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

We will see. It could get picked up by some media person and made into a bigger thing. After all, many developers are approving this at a rapid pace right now, several per minute.

If I was writing an article about this as a tech journalist, I would include that x number of developers have signed a PR trying to remove this shit from chromium. It has a value as a symbolic message.

[-] luthis@lemmy.nz 2 points 2 years ago

Post us a graph!

[-] mrmanager@lemmy.today 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

A picture of people who approved so far :)

And the page with a timeline and some comments:

https://github.com/chromium/chromium/pull/187

[-] Goodie@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Once upon a time IE6 was the dominant browser engine.

[-] Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

And there are still WebApps today (especially in the business internal network world) that only work with IE6 because Microsoft was just throwing their own standards out and doing whatever they wanted.

When you are the dominant player and you make standards that no one else can follow, you destroy competition. We got lucky that businesses and developers liked blink and WebKit, if businesses had been able to make more money from only supporting trident that's exactly what would have happened. "Use IE without tabs or an adblocker or you can't access Facebook, Steam, Gmail, your bank, etc"

You don't have the choice as an individual when the choice is made for you.

[-] Goodie@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

You have a choice as an individual today, but you might not in a few years.

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 7 points 2 years ago

And it took some painful decades to change that.

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[-] mjhagen@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago

¿Por qué no los dos?

[-] Goodie@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Honestly the best response.

[-] luthis@lemmy.nz 16 points 2 years ago

Um... I don't use Github personally (although I should.. I know..) so.. how do I do this?

[-] TheEntity@kbin.social 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Why should you? Git, yes. GitHub? Only if you want to.

[-] bob_lemon@feddit.de 19 points 2 years ago

Log in to your GitHub account and click on the review button off that pull request (see below). Then select approve and maybe add a comment.

[-] luthis@lemmy.nz 4 points 2 years ago

Thanks! Done!

[-] milady@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Did you read the comment

[-] bob_lemon@feddit.de 11 points 2 years ago

Yes, and then I explained exactly how to do this. I assumed that creating a GitHub account isn't the problem for anyone posting on Lemmy.

[-] mrmanager@lemmy.today 3 points 2 years ago

Create an account and log in. Follow the link and click the green button. Thank you. :)

[-] RobotToaster@infosec.pub 2 points 2 years ago

If you have an account, click the green "review changes" button, select "approve", and then click "submit review"

[-] ass_destroyer 14 points 2 years ago

I just had to explain to my wife how much of a nerd I am that I'm laughing at a GitHub pull request

[-] BlueKey@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago

LGTM

[-] anyone_yun@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 years ago

Done!

[-] mrmanager@lemmy.today 9 points 2 years ago

If we can't have fun, what can we do right. :)

[-] vriska1@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Do you think Google will fully implement this in the end?

[-] voodooattack@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

Done. Good riddance.

[-] pglpm@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 years ago

Neat idea! +1

[-] Kory@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

Thanks for the initiative, approved.

[-] x4740N@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Done and approved

[-] vappster@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Approved!

[-] vriska1@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

If Google does push this how soon could they start implementation?

[-] can_a_bus@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Looks like it doesn't build successfully. :/

[-] dbilitated@aussie.zone 2 points 2 years ago

yeah I'd prefer a PR that removes the filename and actually builds so it could be merged.. the emojis might be better as a comment. although json doesn't support comments iirc so maybe just a thoughtful commit message.

[-] pglpm@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's reached 333 protesters! that's 1/3 of the way to 1000, it'd be cool if it kept on increasing :)

[-] mrmanager@lemmy.today 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah I don't know if someone posted it on reddit, could help I guess.

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