Google Tries to Defend Its Web Environment Integrity as Critics Slam It as Dangerous
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Google has defended its Web Environment Integrity on the grounds that it aims to make web browsing more private and safe through tokens.

I’m happy to see this being noticed more and more. Google wants to destroy the open web, so it’s a lot at stake.

Google basically says “Trust us”. What a joke.

  • tabular@lemmy.worldEnglish
    532·
    1 year ago

    Firefox in the meanwhile but long term we need to move away from the unfathomably bloated web protocol standard/browsers.

    • TheYear2525@lemmy.worldEnglish
      261·
      1 year ago

      Web protocol? Which one?

      I wouldn’t consider http or dns bloated, for instance. And tcp/ip isn’t web-specific enough for me to think that’s what you mean by “the web protocol”.

      Are you just trying to say you don’t like websites in a way that sounds techy?

        • TheYear2525@lemmy.worldEnglish
          23·
          1 year ago

          That’s a rant about the complexity of modern browser engines, not the protocols. The web worked just fine before CSS and JS. The protocols aren’t the problem. Lynx is still being maintained if you want the web without the bloat of features like js and inline images.

          • tabular@lemmy.worldEnglish
            36·
            1 year ago

            I believe the rant demonstrates there cannot be more competition for browsers and therefore justifies the idea that browsers will stagnate and come to an end. I think the solution will be to move away from one application doing many things to using separate software dedicated to narrow purposes.

            • Eheran@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              Ah yes, I do the same in my kitchen. One machine that does one job and then sits around unused for the rest of the year.

              No, obviously that is not the way. I don’t want to deal with 20 separate programs to do the job Firefox does.

    • dan@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      What’s the “web protocol”? Are you talking about HTTP?

      • TheYear2525@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        1 year ago

        Seems from their response to me asking the same thing, they mean browser engines, not anything to do with any of the protocols involved.

            • dan@lemm.eeEnglish
              5·
              1 year ago

              Ok well, the modern web technology ecosystem is incredibly featureful and flexible, it allows a huge array of options for building rich interactive applications, all delivered to your browser on-demand in a few seconds.

              Sure some of the technologies involved aren’t perfect (and I challenge you to find any system that feature-rich that doesn’t have a few dark corners), but there really no alternative option that comes close in terms of flexibility and maturity.

              • tabular@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                1 year ago

                Adding features endlessly, heedless of danger of the inate security issue from the complexity, makes for an uncompetative and ultimatly unsustainable ecosystem.

                The alternative I believe in is to use seperare apps for each segmented feature (the dedicated video player plays the video, the browser merely fetches it).

                • dan@lemm.eeEnglish
                  2·
                  1 year ago

                  Web standards are public, discussed openly, heavily scrutinised (including by security researchers) and available for any browser developer to implement.

                  You want to go back to the days of Realplayer, Acrobat Reader, Flash, etc, when individual companies made their own privately developed closed source apps?