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It's serverside with browser support. A webserver implements it on their site, so it could refuse to load without WEI regardless of chromium or not.
...therefore, the more people who switch to non-chromium browsers, the better.
You're preaching to the choir.
I don't know. I just had a discussion where someone told me it'd unrealistic to give up YouTube for the alternatives and yadda yadda yadda. It bears reminding that not everyone is as privacy-minded and make up nowhere near a majority. Not caring what happens because you aren't using chromium is dangerous. It's still about you and it's still going to affect you.
It's not that I don't care. I intend to do whatever I can to help prevent it. But at the end of the day, if people keep supporting platforms like YouTube, then I see the enshittification of the internet as inevitable. We're literally welcoming it by doing so.
Been there, done that. Spoiler alert, it ends with even more people switching to chromium, Mozilla crying that it's deeply concerned with and extremely opposing WEI and will work on figuring out a better solution, because WEI is not what Open Web should be, but is being forced to implement it, because people are switching to other browsers because their shit ain't working.
I wager the post on Mozilla's blog is going to read something like this blog-post about EME (the closed-source video DRM) from few years back. I mean, you can just replace EME with WEI and be done with it. Because this has already happened once before, and we know how exactly it will end.
Even if you're right, I'm not going to throw my hands up and do nothing.
Within 6 months of implementation someone will find a way around it, or a FOSS alternative to spoof the WEI signing on servers.
I mean, it's basically going to be as strong as TLS. Unless the digital signers cert gets leaked, I don't see how.