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…everyone else, and then a much later time claiming it was "spam" is a pretty dirty tactic [2]. [1] https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/... [2] https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/...

comment by urda · 2023-07-25 · in Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web

…Firefox and stop using Chrome. Mozilla stands against this and these engineers pushing it [6]. [1] https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/... [2] https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/... [3]…

comment by urda · 2023-07-25 · in Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web

…on HN and has, so far, remained silent here too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36825097 [0] https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/...

comment by EvanAnderson · 2023-07-24 · in Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web

I'll add to this, notably, issues are still closed after the weekend: https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/... If this proposal gets rejected it'll be because of feedback in the press that is impossible to ignore. My…

comment by danShumway · 2023-07-24 · in Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web

The use cases for the WEI proposal are pretty clear from the explainer ( https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/ ...): Google "will be able to request a token that attests key facts about the environment their client…

comment by thesuperbigfrog · 2023-07-24 · in Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web

>> Seems like this is going to get a lot of pushback. It is: https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/...

comment by thesuperbigfrog · 2023-07-24 · in Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web

…of what is being solved." The use cases for the WEI proposal are pretty clear from the explainer ( https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/... ): Google "will be able to request a token that attests key facts about the…

comment by thesuperbigfrog · 2023-07-23 · in So, you don't like a web platform proposal

…- be used by websites to exclude unattested clients, or you're implementing a useless feature." https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/...

comment by delehal · 2023-07-23 · in Web Environment Integrity API Proposal

…impose computing restrictions on the user . ---- > Can you quote that section. I don't see it. See https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/... , specifically the bullet-point list under the introduction: > [...] This…

comment by danShumway · 2023-07-22 · in Web Environment Integrity API Proposal

…so that I can try to take a breath away from GitHub. I will reopen them after the weekend [1] https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/... [2] https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/...

comment by RupertWiser · 2023-07-22 · in Web Environment Integrity API Proposal

…could still run your own JavaScript on websites. In fact, this is explicitly stated as a non-goal: https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/... > Non-goals: > > - Enforce or interfere with browser functionality, >…

comment by tylerhou · 2023-07-22

…high level overview about how they would try to mitigate fingerprinting and cross site tracking: https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/... . It's obvious that this doc is just a very early working draft -- the rest of…

comment by tylerhou · 2023-07-22

https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/... I never thought I'd see a CoC being used as ammo against this, but it's excellent.

comment by userbinator · 2023-07-22 · in Web Environment Integrity API Proposal

A good explanation of how he would reconcile his proposal and the ideas he's previously expressed: https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/...

comment by jefftk · 2023-07-22 · in Web Environment Integrity API Proposal

…weekend so that I can try to take a breath away from GitHub. I will reopen them after the weekend https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/...

comment by andrethegiant · 2023-07-21 · in Web Environment Integrity API Proposal

…The one pager has a section on stakeholder feedback [0], but doesn't name them for some reason. [0] https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/...

comment by enumjorge · 2023-07-21 · in Web Environment Integrity API Proposal

…might be that Firefox won't implement the proposal. [0]: https://github.com/RupertBenWiser [1]: https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/... [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26344013

comment by tentacleuno · 2023-07-21 · in Web Environment Integrity API Proposal

https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/... They got tired of getting comments from mere web users that don't want this and locked down comments :P

comment by yukkuri · 2023-07-21 · in Google Chrome Proposal – Web Environment Integrity

…Just skimmed, will read in full later. https://rupertbenwiser.github.io/Web-Environment-Integrity/ https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/... Goals Allow web servers to evaluate the authenticity of the device and…

comment by throwaway888abc · 2023-07-21 · in Web Environment Integrity API

…context. Maybe the URL should just be updated to the github document the blog post links? [0] [0] https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/...

comment by JeremyNT · 2023-07-20 · in Become Ungoogleable

actual link: https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/...

comment by 38 · 2023-07-20 · in Become Ungoogleable

Issue #28: Don’t. https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/...

comment by sclarisse · 2023-07-19 · in Web Environment Integrity Proposal

…no regards towards privacy and user control. It's a shame what the W3C has degenerated into. [1] https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/...

comment by akyuu · 2023-07-19 · in Google Chrome Proposal – Web Environment Integrity

…applause, from those who have been sold the message to be afraid. Coproate controlled devices only: https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/... Government ID required only: https://github.com/WICG/mobile-document-request…

comment by rektide · 2023-05-15 · in Companies to pay $615k in investigation over faked net neutrality comments

…the user has no control over, that Google can attest will only ever do what the developer wants. https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/... https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/Ux5h_... I just cannot…

comment by rektide · 2023-05-15 · in Android Protected Confirmation API

…"to prevent abuse" you can only use attestable devices (aka devices you the user cannot control), https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/... , and only after you present government id,…

comment by rektide · 2023-05-14 · in Laura Greene and Terence Tao Lead Whitehouse Generative AI Working Group

From the linked explainer at https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/... > As new browsers are introduced, they would need to demonstrate to attesters (a relatively small group) that they pass the bar, Good luck with…

comment by pmontra · 2023-05-08 · in Web Environment Integrity – Google locking down on browsers