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.

  • AnonymousLlama@kbin.social
    39·
    1 year ago

    The Firefox team responded saying that it’s an awful idea and that plenty of people rely on being able to appear human, for example screen readers who need to interact as a human would but then translates it into a format their users can understand.

    These propositions are just full of drawbacks for the user, the user actually gains nothing at all. Let’s hope this rubbish doesn’t take a foothold.

    • SkepticElliptic@beehaw.org
      9·
      1 year ago

      The biggest issue I see is not being able to block malicious scripts from running. An all or nothing approach is a terrible terrible idea.

    • 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?