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.
Done
With the TL;DR being: Google/Alphabet wants to more easily block non-chrome browsers ability to use their services.
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.
They also could use it to slowly push ChromeOS-only features and services. Don’t forget they have their own “OS”!
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
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!
Done, thanks.
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?
Um… I don’t use Github personally (although I should… I know…) so… how do I do this?
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.
Did you read the comment
Yes, and then I explained exactly how to do this. I assumed that creating a GitHub account isn’t the problem for anyone posting on Lemmy.
Why should you? Git, yes. GitHub? Only of you want to.
Create an account and log in. Follow the link and click the green button. Thank you. :)
I just had to explain to my wife how much of a nerd I am that I’m laughing at a GitHub pull request
Done!
If we can’t have fun, what can we do right. :)
Done. Good riddance.
Thanks for the initiative, approved.
LGTM
Looks like it doesn’t build successfully. :/
Done and approved
Approved!