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"Web Environment Integrity" is an all-out attack on the free Internet (www.fsf.org)
submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/2546109

Read why "Web Environment Integrity" is terrible, and why we must vocally oppose it now. Google's latest maneuver, if we don't act to stop it, threatens our freedom to explore the Internet with browsers of our choice.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

goodbye adblock goodbye anything not chromium based goodbye fun

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

Oh, it's worse then that: you want to scrape some content, cut and paste content, save an image, save a stream of music/video - "oh... sorry, you can't do that Dave cause the command line tool/3rd party website/gui isn't trusted, but if you subscribe to our ultra premium package you can have some of that functionality unlocked (but just for our site) or you can watch some ads. "