Request for Mozilla Position on an Emerging Web Specification Specification Title: Web Environment Integrity API Specification or proposal URL (if available): https://rupertbenwiser.github.io/Web-E...
When you want to access a website, the server will ask your browser “Is the user’s environment good for me to show my website?” and will only provide you the website if your browser agrees. What this essentially means is that ad blocking or any other scripting on your side could make your browser say “No, there’s some fuckery going on” and you would no longer be served the page.
It’s like going to a restaurant but you can only order from the pre approved from Google menu that they don’t mind if you have allergies. What they mind it’s what kind of car you use to come to the restaurant.
Google is making a system to verify any given user is running a verified browser on a verified OS on verified hardware (TPM).
The first problem is that only big tech companies will be able to pass any of these verification steps. Say goodbye to your modifiable, community-driven, open source OS or browser.
The second problem is that the only software they choose to verify well be increasingly restricted. Say goodbye to your ad-blocker, because Google makes the browser and they’re the one selling the ads.
You can still an unverified browser, I suppose, but websites decide whether to let you in or not. And Google will reduce their ad revenue if they don’t “verify” their users.
Can someone ELI5 this
When you want to access a website, the server will ask your browser “Is the user’s environment good for me to show my website?” and will only provide you the website if your browser agrees. What this essentially means is that ad blocking or any other scripting on your side could make your browser say “No, there’s some fuckery going on” and you would no longer be served the page.
Is this why people don’t like google AMP links? Because the AMP links can prevent adblockers from working
AMP links serve other people’s content from google’s servers meaning you never leave their domain.
It’s like going to a restaurant but you can only order from the pre approved from Google menu that they don’t mind if you have allergies. What they mind it’s what kind of car you use to come to the restaurant.
Google is making a system to verify any given user is running a verified browser on a verified OS on verified hardware (TPM).
The first problem is that only big tech companies will be able to pass any of these verification steps. Say goodbye to your modifiable, community-driven, open source OS or browser.
The second problem is that the only software they choose to verify well be increasingly restricted. Say goodbye to your ad-blocker, because Google makes the browser and they’re the one selling the ads.
You can still an unverified browser, I suppose, but websites decide whether to let you in or not. And Google will reduce their ad revenue if they don’t “verify” their users.