Google is ruining the entire web

I can't wait to have to download a crack for my browser so a website thinks that my browser is using wei and no-adblock.

Maybe the thing to do here, when web sites start enforcing this, is to swamp them with support requests. Don't write a screed or manifesto with ethical or technical reasons why this is wrong. Pretend to be a non-technically-inclined user and tell them you've spent hours trying to get it to work and your browser keeps throwing up errors you don't understand. They will ignore the principles, but if they think the technology is "too hard" for their "dumb users," that might carry more weight.

The free internet is bad for Google.

Secutity is not priotity.

So what can we do? Egg their headquarters? Because so far our useless politicians haven't passed bills to fight this.

Never forget: https://contrachrome.com/

Not overly worried - the EU anticompetition laws will swat this down on this side of the atlantic - but not sure about the US

More DRM. Browsers already support DRM schemes for media playback.

That's not a WEB browser, that's a Googleverse browser.

where linux

i know google sucks but still

They’re adding DRM? In what way?

They already did it with site doing SEO for Google's algorithmic dark patterns.

One of the four authors of the proposal is on my mastodon instance. How ironic (and kinda embarrassing).

That was the plan all along.

I'm ok with sites using WEI as an alternative to captcha, but if any site tries to fail closed on WEI I will be first in line to join the DDOS.