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are they seriously still going ahead with this shit? Web Integrity API is the worst idea in existence
- If the web integrity API goes live and I can't use some sites because of it, it will be very nice to have a very clear filter on what websites are complete garbage for using it. Vivat librewolf + VPN!
  
  any websites that implement that API will never see me visit them ever again
  
  Ahh so I'm about to stop visiting some sites I see. Thanks google for the internet break.
- they are already implementing it in chome

Once the web became a corporate landscape it instantly turned to shit. Give me pure html/css sites again hosted by my friends'.
- Look up neocities
  
  Neocities + Fediverse (or at least foss alternatives) is the way to (mostly) escape the corporate internet
  
  Hell yeah, time to make a synthwave site.

f i r e f o x
we should have been using it for decades now.
but then simply switching browsers won't really do in the long run, next step is hopefully banding together to eat the rich....
- we should have been using it for decades now.
  Some of us have
  
  I used to use Firefox before Chrome, and it was working great. Then at some point Firefox just started sucking and so I ended up switching to Chrome.
  Around the same time I stopped using hotmail in favor of gmail as well
   
  Now, probably almost 20 years later I'm back at Firefox
  I haven't escaped gmail yet though
  
  Gang gang
  
  I used chrome for a long time. It's just the browser I downloaded when I was a kid, and realized there were options other than Internet Explorer. I used it for years, just because I couldn't be arsed to switch.
  It was this Web API shit that made me finally bite the bullet and switch. Honestly, after some tinkering and researching plugins I barely notice the change. Should've switched years ago.
- I started using Firefox after Opera changed to being Chromium-based about 10 years ago. (RIP) Fortunately Firefox is a lot better than it used to be so it's not so bad.
  Oddly enough I got a lot of unprompted flack from my colleagues about using non-Chrome browsers. It boggles my mind how much people are really attached to Chrome.

why is this even a comic
- It is part of serie "Day 622 of poorly drawn stuff until YouTube brings back the dislike count or a better video platform appears", they are mostly about internet things.
  
  Oh poor devil is gonna be drawing daily comics for the rest of his life
- comics are an incredible storyboarding-esque medium that you can use to draw and talk about anything. it doesn't even need to be limited to a 4-panel gag. I love comics

- From my understanding, it allows a website to check if you’re running a Chromium browser, and block your access to the site or to features of the site if you aren’t
  
  Well then I am a chromium browser. At least as long you need to think that.
  What technology they are using I can't fake on a Firefox?
  
  Bing for enterprise is already blocking browsers that aren't Edge. Clicking "Edge" from the list of browser identities in Firefox seems to go around the block.
  
  On what grounds? I know why google wants this, but why would the average website do this?
  
  Don’t sites already do this?
  
  It's not about whether it's a chromium browser or not. It's about whether a browser is "trusted" and installed from a "trusted" source, like the windows store... Basically gatekeeping. Still, Firefox and any browser could still be approved.
- It's not just chromium in and of itself. It's that it would be a browser that's unmodifiable by the user, so no unapproved extensions, no ad blockers, etc.
  It's a way for google to tell its ad buyers that "hey, we can 100% guarantee the end user is seeing your ads if they're using this browser". And then all of the corporate websites cater only to that browser, or give a different user experience for all other browsers.
  Personally, I find this problematic for several reasons:
  I wouldn't be in control of my browser and how it executes arbitrary code on my machine
  The system creates second class citizens on the internet
  It cedes control of the open internet to corporations, like google
  Privacy; I don't give a shit what google says about pseudonymous and group identities, researchers have found problems after problems after problems...
  
  You know, I can’t wait for the EU to tear Googles ass open until an elephant can walk through it. DMA my beloved
  
  Imagine being forced to read ads when looking at a newspaper.
  
  Also the attestations have to be signed by the underlying OS, so probably this would not work on Linux either.

Enshitification of the entire internet to force more ads
Thanks, capitalists :)

sometimes i wonder if its better to just let the internet die
- Reject modernity, embrace tradition. Let's go back to the old internet powered by people who knew how to connect their computer to the web and their custom webpages
  
  That reminds me, I should get around to making my own website on neocities.
- You say that now, but what are you gonna do without porn? Rent dvds?
  
  people will start having sex again 🥲
  
  Make internet to be just porn, that is the solution.
  
  Stock up on hard drives and download all the content.
  Alternatively, AI advances so far you can create basically anything with an appropriate prompt.

Well to be fair, if google wanted to kill Firefox they could just stop paying Mozilla for using their search engine as the default. That's basically the only thing that's keeping them afloat.
- They don't want to "kill Firefox" though. They want people to use Google products in all forms - using Google through Firefox is better than scattering users to other browsers without a Google default. By forcing users to Chromium they don't just kill Firefox, they direct users TO ever more Google products in the process.