are they seriously still going ahead with this shit? Web Integrity API is the worst idea in existence
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.
This is the reason that banks can’t even roll out MFA beyond a text message. Everybody uses a bank, less people use Netflix. The customer support headache if only 0.1% of people have to call in defeats any cost savings, and they already are ready to write off a lot of losses due to crime etc
Korean banks already require some pretty weird stuff. It's not common in the US at all, thankfully, but I can see them adopting it...
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.
Try a Pixel + Custom ROM?
Ahh so I'm about to stop visiting some sites I see. Thanks google for the internet break.
Not that I don't fully agree actually, but just want to point out that... Not using the web is an outcome they absolutely want. That way only the "right people" are using the Internet so there can be the maximum amount of advertising and money made from each iota of bandwidth they have pried from their hands.
You aren't monetizable? Well they don't want you wasting resources if you won't increase their paycheck. It's just the Internet once again being early in resource hording.
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
Hell yeah, time to make a synthwave site.
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....
we should have been using it for decades now.
Some of us have
I used to use Firefox before Chrome, and it was working great. Then at some point Firefox just started sucking and so I ended up switching to Chrome.
Around the same time I stopped using hotmail in favor of gmail as well
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Now, probably almost 20 years later I'm back at Firefox
I haven't escaped gmail yet though
Gang gang
I used chrome for a long time. It's just the browser I downloaded when I was a kid, and realized there were options other than Internet Explorer. I used it for years, just because I couldn't be arsed to switch.
It was this Web API shit that made me finally bite the bullet and switch. Honestly, after some tinkering and researching plugins I barely notice the change. Should've switched years ago.
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.
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.
Oh poor devil is gonna be drawing daily comics for the rest of his life
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
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.
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.
are they seriously still going ahead with this shit? Web Integrity API is the worst idea in existence
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.
This is the reason that banks can’t even roll out MFA beyond a text message. Everybody uses a bank, less people use Netflix. The customer support headache if only 0.1% of people have to call in defeats any cost savings, and they already are ready to write off a lot of losses due to crime etc
Korean banks already require some pretty weird stuff. It's not common in the US at all, thankfully, but I can see them adopting it...
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.
Try a Pixel + Custom ROM?
Ahh so I'm about to stop visiting some sites I see. Thanks google for the internet break.
Not that I don't fully agree actually, but just want to point out that... Not using the web is an outcome they absolutely want. That way only the "right people" are using the Internet so there can be the maximum amount of advertising and money made from each iota of bandwidth they have pried from their hands.
You aren't monetizable? Well they don't want you wasting resources if you won't increase their paycheck. It's just the Internet once again being early in resource hording.
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
Hell yeah, time to make a synthwave site.
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....
Some of us have
I used to use Firefox before Chrome, and it was working great. Then at some point Firefox just started sucking and so I ended up switching to Chrome.
Around the same time I stopped using hotmail in favor of gmail as well
Â
Now, probably almost 20 years later I'm back at Firefox
I haven't escaped gmail yet though
Gang gang
I used chrome for a long time. It's just the browser I downloaded when I was a kid, and realized there were options other than Internet Explorer. I used it for years, just because I couldn't be arsed to switch.
It was this Web API shit that made me finally bite the bullet and switch. Honestly, after some tinkering and researching plugins I barely notice the change. Should've switched years ago.
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.
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.
Oh poor devil is gonna be drawing daily comics for the rest of his life
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
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.
You say that now, but what are you gonna do without porn? Rent dvds?
people will start having sex again 🥲
Make internet to be just porn, that is the solution.
Stock up on hard drives and download all the content.
Alternatively, AI advances so far you can create basically anything with an appropriate prompt.
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.
For those of you wondering
Hey can the antitrust people looking at Google do something about this? Thanks.
Didn't the judge on that case think Firefox was a search engine? Doesn't seem like they are very informed on the issues
firefox has foxkeh why would you use anything else
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/come-get-your-fill-of-foxkeh-cuteness
Can’t lie, although not a solution to the bad part of WEI, pi-hole is looking really really nice…
I use Duck Duck Go
that's an search engine, not a web browser