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Google is already pushing Web Environment Integrity into Chromium (github.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (5 children)

i've been using a samsung chromebook plus since it launched until now... and it's end-of-support next month. being a typical human with low funds for new gear, i WAS considering a new chromebook of some kind. The chrome drm bullshit doesn't effect me too much as I use this mostly within the linux container, or firefox android version... however, I realize i need to take a stand and not financially support these tyrants.

so, what are my options? a pinebook running debian? are there any good netbooks out there? I don't use this thing for games or streaming media at all - mostly ssh, some browsing, etc. it's about time I take the final steps to de-goog my life.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Can someone ELI5 how this could prevent a fork of Chromium from just not playing nice and telling the website "yeah yeah, it's all untempered *wink wink*" and then still remove/alter stuff as it pleases?

Edit: ok I think I got it ... it's basically the server that decides if it trusts the judgment of the client or not. Can't wait to see that cat-and-mouse game going on 🙄

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Fuck this is trash. DRM for the web. I wish people would understand websites like kbin are not free and that if you use a website you need to pay to keep it alive. But no one wants to pay for anything on the internet, and so we have ads. Ads will for sure kill the internet.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

I guess I'll never use Chrome or Google products again then

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

So..I don't use chrome anymore, but I use Vivaldi. Guess this'll fuck that up too or will they remove it?

Edit: looks like they're concerned about it but also are worried stripping it out will f up theye browser being accepted

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

Can someone ELI5 me on what this is and why it is bad?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

google want websites to be able to check whether you're running an approved browser. And they also want to be the ones to have the authority to decide what an "approved browser" is.

Given that google is an advertising company that owns a browser, constantly tries to cripple ad blockers they will probably simply start saying that any browser that doesn't implement the stuff they want (crippled ad blockers) is "untrustworthy"

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