"Web Environment Integrity" is an all-out attack on the free Internet

Jure Repinc@lemmy.ml to Technology@beehaw.org – 281 points –
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/2546109

Read why "Web Environment Integrity" is terrible, and why we must vocally oppose it now. Google's latest maneuver, if we don't act to stop it, threatens our freedom to explore the Internet with browsers of our choice.

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Apple doesn't have the power to kill the internet, but Google does.

No but they have the power to fundamentally alter how we use it.

Look at what happened after the launch of the iPhone. Flash was killed, and devs moved to mobile-first or even mobile-only development for web and apps. It completely altered how we used the web, the Internet, and what devs focus on.