With Google’s proposed DRM / Web Environment Integrity project looming, will there be any change to PG’s recommended browsers?
I’m sure it’s on everyone’s radar, but this seems like the absolute antithesis of privacy. There will be nothing private about anything chromium-based if this goes through…
Is it a privacy issue tho? It’s dangerous to the freedom of the internet and an ethical dilemma. But how does it increase tracking potential?
It will stop you from using tools like ublock origin which help mitigate tracking.
The project would only allow “verified” web browsers. This means that the only web browsers you can use are the ones that Google has allowed: owned by big companies. It would prevent smaller, privacy friendly web browsers from being a part of the internet.
Not only browsers, but operating system as well. Using GrapheneOS, eOS, or whatever?
Denied. Stock OS only on OUR internet, sorry.
Not unless websites require certain features to be visible, that’s the major concern.
It’s all a bit nebulous at the moment, but at least initially it seems to me like your browser’s “attester” would have a lot of insights into your browsing habits. It also has the potential of killing 3rd party browsers like FF who could lose access to websites unless they jump onboard, and who may still lose access if websites decide not to trust their (hopefully more private) attestation service.
There’s still a lot of whatifs floating around because Google just surprise pulled this project out of their ass days ago after working on it in secret for at least a year.