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  • void_wanderer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    1 year ago

    Thing is, if this takes off and websites adopt it, FF will be forced to integrate it aswell. I’d be fine with some websites not working in FF, but my mother will call me and say “the internet is broken”. I guess Mozilla doesn’t want and/or cannot afford that.

    • narc0tic_bird@lemm.eeEnglish
      9·
      1 year ago

      That is correct, but for now, Mozilla has the right stance on the matter.

      I’m still waiting for what Apple’s stance is. They integrated functionality into Safari that technically works similarly, but that’s only used for captcha verification. I can see them choosing either side to be honest. They can embrace the Web Integrity API because it fits their “closed ecosystem” (in case of iOS devices) type of product quite well, but on the other hand they don’t really have a website that would be suitable to use the Web Integrity API, so why would they give in to what Google wants? If Apple doesn’t integrate Web Integrity API into Safari, I don’t see any major website using it. They can’t afford to lose ~28% of the mobile market.

      • cstine@lemmy.uncomfortable.businessEnglish
        131·
        1 year ago

        Apple will follow suit: don’t be taken in by the ‘we love our customers’ nonsense they like to present. They make billions in selling ads too, they just do it a little more quietly than Google.

        • Sendbeer@lemm.eeEnglish
          31·
          1 year ago

          Agreed. Apples stance on privacy is more about PR and keeping ad competitors at a disadvantage on their platform than actual privacy. Only reason they might not fall in line is if they feel there is enough public opposition to it to get some PR and make Google look bad. Not too optimistic on that though since most people are oblivious to the issue.

        • narc0tic_bird@lemm.eeEnglish
          21·
          1 year ago

          They don’t sell ads on the web though, so I don’t see how this would be related.

          • cstine@lemmy.uncomfortable.businessEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            I kinda have two answers to this:

            1. Not yet,

            2. It was more an intent to show that they’re not some shining defender of the ad-free private internet, who would never take action to defend a potential future revenue stream if they thought it might be profitable later.

            Remember everyone, corporations are not your friends, your buddy, your pal, or even slightly gives a shit about you beyond how much money they can extract from your wallet and anything that’s in the way of them doing so they’ll work around, stomp on, and kill by any means necessary.

    • RagingNerdoholic@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Likely true, but as someone pointed out in another thread, it should be possible to “technically” comply with WEI enforcement, and then have a transparent abstraction layer to extract the “enforced” markup and code, exposing it to the user-facing browser to interpret like it normally would.

      It’s some real asinine bullshit software engineering that shouldn’t be necessary, but it should work.