I'd like to believe that enough of us actually stopped using chrome and switched to Firefox the day they made that announcement that swayed them... But in reality I'm sure it was just the bad press and they're going to try to find a different more sneaky way to do the same shit.
I've been using Firefox since it was Mozilla.
Amateur. I've been using Firefox since Netscape Navigator.
I was born a decade after Netscape navigator was launched. I'm legally an adult. Wow, you're old!
What shall I say? The first browser I ever used was called "Arena" and it ran on a UNIX system because Windows back then didn't even have (native) networking - you had to purchase TCP/IP for it from third parties back then.
And one of the first websites I visited was "the original one" on Tim Barners-Lee's NEXT cube in CERN.
And guess what - there was a network way before the Web. We had chat, "social media" before it was called that, and played online multiplayer games. All without any spam or advertising.
From now on, the only browser I’m installing is Firefox.
Not proceeding for now.
Yes, something tells me that they will just switch to attempting to introduce this piecemeal so that fewer people will notice what's going on.
'Heard your feedback' is becoming the death flag of future fuckery these last few years
more like they realised that the Irish data protection officer looked like they were gonna side with privacy advocates over anti-adblock, which is a precursor (and main usecase of) this API
Bet they'll just rename it later, like what they did with FLoC to Ad Topics.
That usually means they will have something worse at a later time.
The most likely option is that they will rebrand and we will have to push back against a "completely new, completely different functionality" in a few months.
They had some of those changes already checked into their code base. It'll be interesting to see how much of that code comes back out.
My money is on zero. They'll comment it out and then turn it back on when no one is looking.
The Advert People are easily startled, but they'll soon be back, and in greater numbers.
This is your wake up to stop using Chrome and Chromium based browsers (e.g. Brave, Vivaldi, etc). Switch to Firefox if you haven't already.
This should never be left up to Chrome. We need antitrust laws.
We'll see how this shakes out in a year.
Eternal vigilance is the price for a free web.
the web has been getting so shitty lately i've actually gotten into drawing and reading and vinyl and film, which i highly recommend as a backup plan; just the idea of this feels like the atomic bomb for the internet
The mainstream web... yes.
The back of the house has never been fucking better. Mastodon changed the game. Why hang out at some asshole's website, hating the website, lacking features and full of advertisements to suck you dry, when you can just come down to the flea market of federated social media and shoot the shit with someone real?
"Flea market of federated social media" is an awesome description!
The "don't be evil" motto was replaced with "don't be evil, but greedy and posessive is okay"
And then later edited to
“~~don’t be evil, but~~ greedy and posessive is okay”
Soon after it changes to it's final form:
“~~don’t be evil, but~~ greed ~~y and posessive is okay~~”
I just figured they skipped straight to:
“~~don’t~~ be evil ~~,b~~u~~t~~ greedy a~~nd pose~~ss~~ive is okay~~”
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.
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.
"We've decided not to pursue Web Integrity API."
"Oh great! But what's that giant thing under the tarp behind you"
"Oh don't worry..."
Floc returned as something else, we will see this come back I am certain
One small victory to fend off the cancer that is current year google.
Unpopular opinion here: I kind of hoped they'd go through with it, as that would completely kill Chrome and Chromium and would lead to a repeat of IE vs Firefox, except Chrome would be the new IE. The fact that they backtracked means that they too saw that people would be massively flocking to Firefox.
I think it's less, "We're worried people will flock to Firefox," and more, "We could get in a lot of legal trouble for trying to force everyone onto Chrome".
Most Chrome users don't even know what a web browser is. They would have remained on Chrome and the web would have suffered for it.
that would completely kill Chrome and Chromium
It definitely wouldn't. The majority of people would never know the difference. Most people use Chrome and don't use ad blockers.
While this "battle" may be won for now, I've no doubt Google will simply try to implement this in a different way with less backlash.
I am not asking for much. Just break up Google and throw both the big shareholders as well as the executives in jail for the rest of their lifes. If you go as far and decide to take all their money and spend it on social services, healthcare and education for the general public, I wouldn't be mad.
Good! Now we just need to degoogle everything else on the internet.
Ah, let me guess, now Google's gonna get everyone and their sister to move all their content to apps...
Rriiiiiiiigghhhhtt.
I'll just be standing over here, watching them not do that.
Web Integrity API proposal is what happens when Big Tech takes over the internet.
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