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Google is once again mucking with internet technologies and standards, this time pushing one critics say will essentially 'DRM the web.'
Disclaimer: I work at Microsoft but not on Windows or Edge. I also don’t have a full understanding about Web Environment Integrity, but am basing this off what I understand. This article states my opinions, as opposed to that of my employer. If you haven’t been under a rock, you may have heard about Google’s evil Web Environment Integrity “proposal”. Supposedly, this is to make sure a browser environemnt can be “trusted”, but it seems Google wants this so they can kill ad blockers.
A working draft specification for a new browser API from Google has raised outcry from the technical community about ethics, trust and adding DRM to the internet....
Google might not be completely ready to give up website cookies just yet, but the company is certainly investigating alternatives like a user-tracking ad platform built into one of the most popular web browsers available.