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A peaceful protest against Web Environment Integrity

github.com A peaceful protest againt Web Environment Integrity by th3maid · Pull Request #187 · chromium/chromium

A peaceful protest is underway against mega corporations attempting to impose DRM on the web, aiming to gain control over all content possible and making our lives worse.

I thought this was kind of a fun way to show discontent with Chromiums added Web Integration - someone made a pull request to simply remove it.

Its already been approved by a lot of us, why not add your approval as well? Click the Approve button and add your name to the list of people supporting the removal.

Google will of course not care but I thought it was a fun gesture.

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Done

For anyone scratching their heads
- With the TL;DR being: Google/Alphabet wants to more easily block non-chrome browsers ability to use their services, and prevent the use of adblocking.
  Which also means that many people using accessability tools will be unable to access them. And they are trying to get Firefox to implement it as well, so they don't take all the blame when shit hits the fan and they start getting multi-billion dollar monopoly fines from the EU.
  
  It's ad blocking and entire operating systems, or computers configured in any way they don't like.
  If this goes through, they can force you to install any plugins they wish, or disable any plugins they wish. Or make sure you don't run Linux and only Windows or Mac. They can force you to have your camera on. They can do anything since they make the rules.
  No innovation will take place. Competing browsers or software will not be allowed or manipulated into marketed as "unsafe".
  This is a takeover of the open web stack as we know it.
- Also Louis Rossmann published a video about it: https://youtube.com/watch?v=0i0Ho-x7s_U
  
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https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/pull/98
This one’s my favorite

worth noting you can sign the CLA and you vote is not just a protest but a legitimate vote.
- Can you give more detail on this?

Don't forget to report the proposal as malicious code!
- How do I do that?
  
  In the repository, there's a button on the right that says "Report this repository". Click on it, then select malicious code and other type of malicious code. Make sure to specify it's against the free, open web and w3c standards!

I just had to explain to my wife how much of a nerd I am that I'm laughing at a GitHub pull request

Um... I don't use Github personally (although I should.. I know..) so.. how do I do this?
- Why should you? Git, yes. GitHub? Only if you want to.
- Log in to your GitHub account and click on the review button off that pull request (see below). Then select approve and maybe add a comment.
  
  Thanks! Done!
  
  Did you read the comment
- Create an account and log in. Follow the link and click the green button. Thank you. :)
- If you have an account, click the green "review changes" button, select "approve", and then click "submit review"

Done!
- If we can't have fun, what can we do right. :)
  
  Do you think Google will fully implement this in the end?

LGTM

Done. Good riddance.

Neat idea! +1

If you want to protest that much just use Firefox...
- Chromium is by far the dominant browser engine. What they do is effectively the standard and implemented by websites and thus approved. That's why this has to be stopped there.
  
  Google doesn't care about this protest because it has no real impact on their business. This is more of an emotional thing, this is for us. I'm not saying that people shouldn't fight. But in reality, spreading information about the upcoming change and urging people to switch to other browsers (along with replacing other services) is the only thing that could produce tangible results in the long term. Hence, I tend to agree with the user above.
  
  Once upon a time IE6 was the dominant browser engine.
  
  Luckily "effectively the standard" is just a temporary thing. What browser was considered "standard" has changed many times in the past, and will continue to change in the future. Of course for this to happen everyone who cares must keep on pushing.
- ¿Por qué no los dos?
  
  Honestly the best response.

Thanks for the initiative, approved.

If Google does push this how soon could they start implementation?

Done and approved

Approved!

Looks like it doesn't build successfully. :/
- yeah I'd prefer a PR that removes the filename and actually builds so it could be merged.. the emojis might be better as a comment. although json doesn't support comments iirc so maybe just a thoughtful commit message.

It's reached 333 protesters! that's 1/3 of the way to 1000, it'd be cool if it kept on increasing :)
- Yeah I don't know if someone posted it on reddit, could help I guess.

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