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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 22:46:56 JST Aral Balkan

   A web server has zero (say it with me, “zero”) right to compel any client to reveal information about itself.

   Unless we inscribe this as a fundamental and immutable tenet of the web, the web as we know it will cease to exist once some version of Google’s Web Environment Integrity proposal makes it past the corporate lackeys at the W3C.

   https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity

   #WebEnvironmentIntegrity #web #DRM #SurveillanceCapitalism #PeopleFarming #SiliconValley #Google #adtech #privacy #w3c #standards

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   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 22:48:12 JST Aral Balkan

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     (Not to mention that this principle has already been violated via the application of DRM in browsers for streaming media.)

   • Machismo (zerglingman@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 22:49:59 JST Machismo

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     @aral haha lynx go brrrrrr
     The web died years ago, replaced by cloudflare and javascript.
     http://wiby.me have fun
   • katzenberger (katzenberger@social.tchncs.de)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jul-2023 02:15:12 JST katzenberger

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     @aral They have now blocked all comments on this "proposal's" github issues - unless you've been contributing, i.e. are in favor of it.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jul-2023 04:26:40 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Greg McVerry

     @jgmac1106 Wait, are you equating protecting the right of privacy of the people who access web sites with enabling Nazis?

     And defending the right of trillion-dollar corporations to mine people to their hearts’ delight?

   • Greg McVerry (jgmac1106@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jul-2023 04:26:41 JST Greg McVerry

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     @aral

     and neonazis everywhere will thank you

     if you rent property, the property owner has more rights

   • katzenberger (katzenberger@social.tchncs.de)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jul-2023 20:13:02 JST katzenberger

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     @aral As predicted:
     https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/issues/28

     ✔️ Within 3 days at most, there'll be a statement expressing their surprise how this proposal was received

     ✔️ They will regret that they were not able to "express" their "intentions" more "clearly", to avoid "misunderstandings"

     ✔️ That specific repo will be locked. Comments on that statement won't be permitted

     ToDo: Within 3-6 months, this attempt will resurface, probably under a different name, and certainly on a different platform

     #Google #Lies

   • katzenberger (katzenberger@social.tchncs.de)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jul-2023 20:13:03 JST katzenberger

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     @aral My prediction:

     - Within 3 days at most, there'll be a statement expressing their surprise how this proposal was received

     - They will regret that they were not able to "express" their "intentions" more "clearly", to avoid "misunderstandings"

     - That specific repo will be locked. Comments on that statement won't be permitted.

     - Within 3-6 months, this attempt will resurface, probably under a different name, and certainly on a different platform.

     I'd love to be proven wrong on this.

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