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Re:Google Tries to Defend Its Web Environment Integrity Crit... by rpdillon on Saturday July 29, 2023 @08:36AM (#36919682)
The last paragraph is a bit surprising:

> WEI can potentially be used to impose restrictions on unlawful activities on the internet, such as downloading YouTube videos and other content, ad blocking, web scraping, etc.

Since when did archiving, ad blocking, and web scraping become unlawful? This sounds like a wishlist of activities Google wishes were unlawful.

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Re:Google Tries to Defend Its Web Environment Integrity Crit... by Ekaros on Saturday July 29, 2023 @08:52AM (#36919802)
So will the WEI block Google from web scraping? That might even be a good thing.
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Re:Google Tries to Defend Its Web Environment Integrity Crit... by CaptainFever on Saturday July 29, 2023 @01:50PM (#36922707)
Google is illegal now /s

Or, more realistically, a way to prevent competitors from doing web scraping as well.

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Re:Google Tries to Defend Its Web Environment Integrity Crit... by bpye on Saturday July 29, 2023 @03:19PM (#36923535)
If they own the attestation for Chrome then presumably they could also allow their scrapers to attest?
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Re:Google Tries to Defend Its Web Environment Integrity Crit... by martin8412 on Sunday July 30, 2023 @03:28AM (#36928743)
That sounds like an antitrust lawsuit.
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Re:Google Tries to Defend Its Web Environment Integrity Crit... by rolph on Saturday July 29, 2023 @10:58AM (#36920914)
you are witnessing a corporation that is making extrajudicial laws, and a method of enforcing them. this is attempted parallel government, and is at least illegal, if not domestic terrorism.
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Re:Google Tries to Defend Its Web Environment Integrity Crit... by raxxorraxor on Monday July 31, 2023 @08:21AM (#36941513)
AI companies that scraped the net previously would like that too. They have their data and don't want others to have the same opportunities.
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