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Chrome not proceeding with Web Integrity API deemed by many to be DRM (9to5google.com)
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cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/5707453

The Chrome team says they're not going to pursue Web Integrity but...

it is piloting a new Android WebView Media Integrity API that’s “narrowly scoped, and only targets WebViews embedded in apps.”

They say its because the team "heard your feedback." I'm sure that's true, and I can wildly speculate that all the current anti-trust attention was a factor too.

Many said we couldn't stop it. We, like many, applied pressure, and they backed the fuck off.

We have no room for complacency now though. Google cannot be allowed to dictate web standards. Firefox needs to eat into that Chromium market share. Never forgive. Never forget.

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[–] bloopernova@programming.dev 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hmm.

That was too easy.

[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That was just the first salvo. This proposal was a feeler: now Google has learned what they couldn't get away with and they need to boil us frogs more slowly.

This will come back on the table. Less aggressive, less visible, but they won't give up on it.

[–] jackpot@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

'...boil us frogs more slowly.' love that idiom, never heard it before.

[–] NightOwl@lemmy.one 9 points 1 year ago

Constant vigilance

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Oh they'll be proceeding with it, just quietly at some undisclosed soon date in the future.