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   Interpeer Project (interpeer@chaos.social)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jul-2023 23:52:18 JST Interpeer Project

   #Google is trying to #kill the #OpenWeb.

   Using the proposed "Web Environment Integrity" means websites can select on which devices (browsers) they wish to be displayed, and can refuse service to other devices. It binds client side software to a website, creating a silo'd app.

   https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/blob/main/explainer.md

   This penalizes platforms on which the preferred client side software is not available.

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     ⚡Tasin 🚀 (tasinone@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 16:09:24 JST ⚡Tasin 🚀

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     @interpeer So if it wish not to be displayed on Chrome then it won't be displayed on other Chrome based browsers too? Also I don’t see a reason why would a website doesn’t wanna show up in a specific browser!!

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     Wilfried Klaebe (wonka@chaos.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 16:09:24 JST Wilfried Klaebe

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     • ⚡Tasin 🚀

     @tasinone I do, if that specific browser would not display ads.

     @interpeer

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     Mark Shane Hayden (msh@coales.co)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 16:09:27 JST Mark Shane Hayden

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     @interpeer LOL the introduction is priceless! 🤣

     To paraphrase:

     "our advertising business allows poor and cheap people to use our customers' Big Expensive Websites and this will enable us to force them to watch our ads and also make sure bots don't cheat us out of those revenue generating eyeballs"

     ...and...

     "people want to read news that isn't fake so this will help limit the fake news that is a direct cause of the motivation our targeted-ad-based, engagement-driven business model has provided"

     It is pretty transparent that Google is trying to do the equivalent of treating cancer with opioids when their primary business model is the carcinogen here.

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