A group of Google engineers has proposed a new Web API that threatens to uproot the work of apps and browsers if they interfere with its ad business. Will the open Web survive?

  • CaptObvious@lemmy.world
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    The thing is, this doesn’t even sound safer. It just sounds like a power grab and protectionism.

    Oh wait. “Safer” for Google’s ad business. Now I get it.

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    It’s easier to manage a prison than a forest.

    I for one would prefer to run through the glades, and considering that I have violated no laws and committed no crimes I feel like my right to do so should not be impinged

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      That’s already here in the form of the Stanford paper about CSAM on the Fediverse. The author of that paper was actually hoping that Meta would come in, add CSAM detectors and blockers to Threads, and then get the rest of the Fediverse to adopt it.

      WEI will jump right on the caboose of this train of thought. “We can modify the Google Attester to fingerprint you and track everything you do, so we’ll know whether or not you post illicit material.” These two topics will eventually just merge.

  • readbeanicecream@kbin.social
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    No doubt, Google wants to be the only gateway to the web and control it.

    “He who controls information controls the world”

    • Tom Clancy