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are they seriously still going ahead with this shit? Web Integrity API is the worst idea in existence
this post was submitted on 12 Oct 2023
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If the web integrity API goes live and I can't use some sites because of it, it will be very nice to have a very clear filter on what websites are complete garbage for using it. Vivat librewolf + VPN!
any websites that implement that API will never see me visit them ever again
Probably Netflix, YouTube, and streaming apps first. I'd say banks, but banks are slow. Games won't take long. If there's not enough blowback it'll spread to every website that uses captchas today.
I feel like if a bank is going to use it, there needs to be a clear financial reason to. Because if someone can't access their account, they might lose their shit and leave for the first bank whose website works.
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This is the kick in the butt I needed to de-google my life. I've already gotten halfway there, just need to make the full switch to proton mail, and then see what I can disconnect from my android phone.
I would hate to switch to Apple, but I may consider it if they are gonna pull this nonsense.
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they are already implementing it in chome
Once the web became a corporate landscape it instantly turned to shit. Give me pure html/css sites again hosted by my friends'.
Look up neocities
Neocities + Fediverse (or at least foss alternatives) is the way to (mostly) escape the corporate internet
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f i r e f o x
we should have been using it for decades now.
but then simply switching browsers won't really do in the long run, next step is hopefully banding together to eat the rich....
I started using Firefox after Opera changed to being Chromium-based about 10 years ago. (RIP) Fortunately Firefox is a lot better than it used to be so it's not so bad.
Oddly enough I got a lot of unprompted flack from my colleagues about using non-Chrome browsers. It boggles my mind how much people are really attached to Chrome.
Enshitification of the entire internet to force more ads
Thanks, capitalists :)
sometimes i wonder if its better to just let the internet die
Reject modernity, embrace tradition. Let's go back to the old internet powered by people who knew how to connect their computer to the web and their custom webpages
That reminds me, I should get around to making my own website on neocities.
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why is this even a comic
It is part of serie "Day 622 of poorly drawn stuff until YouTube brings back the dislike count or a better video platform appears", they are mostly about internet things.
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comics are an incredible storyboarding-esque medium that you can use to draw and talk about anything. it doesn't even need to be limited to a 4-panel gag. I love comics
Well to be fair, if google wanted to kill Firefox they could just stop paying Mozilla for using their search engine as the default. That's basically the only thing that's keeping them afloat.
They don't want to "kill Firefox" though. They want people to use Google products in all forms - using Google through Firefox is better than scattering users to other browsers without a Google default. By forcing users to Chromium they don't just kill Firefox, they direct users TO ever more Google products in the process.
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Hey can the antitrust people looking at Google do something about this? Thanks.
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