• postmeridiem@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz
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    1 year ago

    It’s all about ads/ad money/data, it’s heavily bleeding into a single issue. It’s not like some giant manufacturing company doing shady things with their cars and air conditioners, all the subsidiaries are interlinked. You could say WEI is just a Chrome thing, Google is just their search engine, AdWords is just an ad service etc, but they’re all part of the data to ads to sales pipeline.

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      1 year ago

      And as long as users expect free content there will be a continued need to monetize their usage. That’s not inherently bad.

      Also, WEI is about so so so much more than ad blockers and DRM. Like, so much more. And the spec has nothing to do with Chrome/Google. They are just the first implementers of both sides of equation (browser feature + attester) and only works on Android right now because attestation comes from the OS. They did it for Google Play Services. Nothing else.

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          1 year ago

          My dude, do you even understand the technical details of WEI or are you regurgitating what the Internet has told you? Have you read the spec? They are not forcing anything. Nobody has to opt in. It’s not even available outside of Android and right now it’s only being used for Google’s own products (Google Play Services specifically)

          Please don’t talk like you know what the deal is when you do obviously don’t

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              1 year ago

              Ah yes, I remember that time when the Internet stopped allowing gifs, jpgs, and pngs. Now Firefox crashes whenever it tries to load an image other than a webp because Google made them /s