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
@aral "Users often depend on websites trusting the client environment they run in."
Uhhhh... No, they don't? It has always been a fundamental aspect of web development to never trust client side code... Do they really want to open this can of worms?
@smaisidoro @aral I mean, "users" here most likely means "advertisers" (ie. Google's customers)
