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Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web

arstechnica.com Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web

It's just a "proposal," but it's also being prototyped inside Chrome right now.

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Everyone going mad and many suggesting “if you have it use Safari instead!” when Apple implemented essentially this same thing quite some time ago in Safari 🤔
That said intentions are important. I have little faith that Big G’s goal is anything other than self servin.
- It's a very different thing when a browser with negligible market share does that.
  
  Safari neglegibe? It accounts for about a third of US internet traffic and is the only browser you can even get on iOS (everything else there is forced to be just a reskin)
  
  Safari has over 20% browser market share. That isn't negligible.
- Any chance you have a link or source for this? I usually keep up on tech news but don't remember anything of this nature.
  
  https://httptoolkit.com/blog/apple-private-access-tokens-attestation/
  https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=huqjyh7k
  
  Thanks, that's interesting to read about. While I'm not a web developer, there would seem to be two very large differences between them.
  The Apple tokens were designed for a single purpose, reducing (or eliminating) CAPCHAs, with mobile devices especially in mind. It also is not a replacement, but rather an enhancement of an existing web standard.
  It's Apple, a company that makes their money by selling you things you actually want. Rather than Google, a company that gives you (or other companies) things (for free or discounted) so they can make money off of you.
  It is especially obvious when Google has the literal first bullet-point in their "why we are developing this" as...
  This trust is the backbone of the open internet, critical for the safety of user data and for the sustainability of the website’s business.
  Followed by
  These websites fund themselves with ads, but the advertisers can only afford to pay for humans to see the ads, rather than robots.
  So yeah, Google can kindly go pound sand as far as I'm concerned.

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