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And since you won't be able to modify web pages, it will also mean the end of customization, either for looks (ie. DarkReader, Stylus), conveniance (ie. Tampermonkey) or accessibility.

The community feedback is... interesting to say the least.

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago

Well I won't visit a site that is full of ads now without an ad blocker, so why would the fact that o can't block the ads change my mind. As soon as a site blocks content for having an ad blocker or immediately starts popping up tons of stuff that's nearly impossible to close, I leave.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (10 children)

How do Google Employees sleep at night?

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Non-goals [...] Enforce or interfere with browser functionality, including plugins and extensions. [...]

But guys they gave their pinky promise it's totally fine

let's just allow them to irreversibly make this change so that there is nothing preventing them from applying this totally Non-Goals in the future what could happen

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Also

Challenges and threats to address
[...] Tracking users’ browser history User agents will not provide any browsing information to attesters when requesting a token. We are researching an issuer-attester split that prevents the attester from tracking users at scale, while allowing for a limited number of attestations to be inspected for debugging—with transparency reporting and auditability [...]

Cross-site tracking
While attestation tokens will not include information to identify unique users, the attestation tokens themselves could enable cross-site tracking if they are re-used between sites. For example, two colluding sites could work out that the same user visited their sites if a token contains any unique cryptographic keys and was shared between their sites.

Good to see where your priorities lie in terms of user protection when deciding to launch this into conversation. Dude idk we'll fix it later don't worry bro

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] ItzLiftin 39 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Companies like google should really not have so much power. I have stopped using chrome 1 year ago, and i am thinking about switching to a browser that doesn´t use chromium.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That also destroys the openess of the design. They already DRMed up the media, why the whole page? It will kill transparency completely

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (4 children)

why are they trying to restrict and control the internet? on the plus side I guess I'll go outside more, touch grass, forget this crap exists and enjoy other facets of life. It's just sad to see it be transformed into this pile of crap.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago

Before everyone starts complaining, remember:
This is for the ads. There are millions of starving ads on the internet right now. For just a click and load a day on every ad you see you too can help a billion dollar company survive.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (3 children)

"Please click on all the crosswalks before you can enter this site"
This is why people pirate things.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Makes me want to donate to Firefox, not the Mozilla Foundation. To Firefox.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

Google proving why it removed its old motto "Don't be evil."

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I guess Do No Harm is going really well

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[–] _haha_oh_wow_ 28 points 1 year ago

What a bunch of scumbags.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Here are the github repository, issues and comments immortalised for posterity in IPFS:

The issues and comments are in github json format -- if anyone wants to collate them into a human-readable text or html file, please do so.

Edit: Its immortality of course depends on you to access and pin the content.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

Fuck Google

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