Why Vivaldi browser thinks Google’s new proposal, the Web-Environment-Integrity spec, is a major threat to the open web and should be pushed back.

Will accessibility tools that rely on automating input to the browser cause it to become untrusted? Will it affect extensions? The spec does currently specify a carveout for browser modifications and extensions, but those can make automating interactions with a website trivial. So, either the spec is useless or restrictions will eventually be applied there too.

  • exussum@lemmy.world
    5·
    1 year ago

    Even if you were to diminish any valid reasons to not add this DRM feature, what are the actual reasons they think are pro consumer?

    • odium
      4·
      1 year ago

      Harder for scammers/hackers iirc.

      But this also makes it harder for devs to run tests.

        • odium
          6·
          1 year ago

          Saw some Google bootlicker on GitHub issues talking about how the policy will prevent a lot of automated stuff including bots and many hacker tools.