“Web Environment Integrity”: Locking Down the Web • Hacker News Board

Re: “Web Environment Integrity”: Locking Down the Web

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Post by gabrielsroka » Thu, Aug 03, 2023, 4:36 AM UTC

postalrat wrote: post #100

gabrielsroka wrote: post #86

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I said that, but you can disable it. Can you explain your comment? Is it forcing me to use crypto and I'm not aware of it? Am I mining?

I'm not interested in handing over my privacy to a company seeking out creative sources of revenue. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_(web_browser)#Business_m...

From your same source

> Since April 2019, users of the Brave browser can opt in to the Brave Rewards feature.

I have used Brave for years. I've never seen any of their ads and hardly see any other hands since they have a pop-up blocker.

Re: “Web Environment Integrity”: Locking Down the Web

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Post by jacooper » Thu, Aug 03, 2023, 1:37 PM UTC

wkat4242 wrote: post #81

wilsonnb3 wrote: post #41

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IMO the best hedges against Googles web monopoly at the moment are Apple and Microsoft, not Mozilla. Apple because of Safari (duh) and Microsoft because they are possibly the only company that could reasonably maintain a hard Chromium fork in the case of Google going crazy. Unfortunately all three of them are more or less aligned on this issue of remote attestation so I don't really see a path forward. Firefox just d…

This might be the trigger for people to use it again though.

No normal user cares, they didn't care when Safetynet remote attestion was rolled out, and they won't care this time either. Chances are normal users who use Firefox for some features like tab containers will just leave.

Re: “Web Environment Integrity”: Locking Down the Web

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Post by gabrielsroka » Thu, Aug 03, 2023, 2:53 PM UTC

gabrielsroka wrote: post #101

postalrat wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not interested in handing over my privacy to a company seeking out creative sources of revenue. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_(web_browser)#Business_m...

From your same source > Since April 2019, users of the Brave browser can opt in to the Brave Rewards feature. I have used Brave for years. I've never seen any of their ads and hardly see any other hands since they have a pop-up blocker.

> hands since they have a pop-up blocker.

ads since they have an ad blocker