A list of recent hostile moves by Google's Chrome team

Re:A list of recent hostile moves by Google's Chrome team by blibble on Thursday August 03, 2023 @08:28AM (#36984924)

WEI will make chromium effectively unusable

yes you'll have the source, but it won't remotely attest unless you're Google/MS

so it is effectively closed source

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Re:A list of recent hostile moves by Google's Chrome team by colordrops on Thursday August 03, 2023 @11:41AM (#36987397)

Brave uses chromium and they cut WEI out of their build already.

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Re:A list of recent hostile moves by Google's Chrome team by blibble on Thursday August 03, 2023 @11:52AM (#36987544)

so shortly after WEI goes live in Chrome, Brave users won't be able to:

  - use youtube
  - watch "premium" video content (disney/netflix/...)
  - use online banking
  - visit sites with adwords

and will be presented with endless captchas on e.g. cloudflare sites

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Re:A list of recent hostile moves by Google's Chrome team by colordrops on Thursday August 03, 2023 @12:35PM (#36988155)

Yes and? How does that contradict my original point?

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Re:A list of recent hostile moves by Google's Chrome team by blibble on Thursday August 03, 2023 @01:01PM (#36988526)

it doesn't

but you're missing the entire point

if brave doesn't implement WEI then brave ceases to be a functional web browser

it will have voluntarily removed itself from the market

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Re:A list of recent hostile moves by Google's Chrome team by colordrops on Thursday August 03, 2023 @01:47PM (#36989221)

I didn't miss that point. I'm well aware of that point - WEI is a nightmare. This thread is about something else though.

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