Web Environment Integrity Is Finally Gone Earlier this year there was a big discussion about a new web api called web environment integrity and to my surprise the project has officially been sidelined for it too very narrow use in. On november 2, 2023, google abandoned the proposal, removed the prototype implementation from chromium, and proposed a replacement api named "android webview media integrity api" limited to webviews on android.
Web Environment Integrity Is Being Tested In Chrome After facing months of criticism over privacy and anti competitiveness concerns, google’s chrome team has announced it is no longer pursuing its web environment integrity (wei) api proposal. Google intended its web environment integrity api, announced on a developer mailing list in may, to serve as a way to limit online fraud and abuse without enabling privacy problems like cross site tracking or browser fingerprinting. Responding to the feedback received, google announced that the web environment integrity proposal is no longer under consideration by the chrome team. instead, google has shifted its focus to a more narrowly scoped solution: the android webview media integrity api. Google seems to love creating specifications that are terrible for the open web and it feels like they find a way to create a new one every few months. this time, we have come across some controversy caused by a new web environment integrity spec that google seems to be working on.
Google Engineers Want To Make Ad Blocking Near Impossible Responding to the feedback received, google announced that the web environment integrity proposal is no longer under consideration by the chrome team. instead, google has shifted its focus to a more narrowly scoped solution: the android webview media integrity api. Google seems to love creating specifications that are terrible for the open web and it feels like they find a way to create a new one every few months. this time, we have come across some controversy caused by a new web environment integrity spec that google seems to be working on. A potentially precarious situation might be brewing regarding the integrity of the open web as we know it. recently, a very controversial api was discovered that has been in the works by a team of google engineers for over a year. This article addresses that web environment integrity is not being worked on at w3c, and proceeds to explaining how work is brought to w3c and the processes that foster the development of web standards and guidelines that ensure the long term growth of the web. The web environment integrity is a proposed standard by google that introduces an api allowing browsers to verify the integrity of the web environment they operate in. this is done through attester verdicts, which are essentially “seals of approval” from trusted entities. People from google finally give up the wei proposal and reverted all the changes in chromium. instead, they are pursuing a similar proposal, but exclusively for android webview.
Github Explainers By Googlers Web Environment Integrity A potentially precarious situation might be brewing regarding the integrity of the open web as we know it. recently, a very controversial api was discovered that has been in the works by a team of google engineers for over a year. This article addresses that web environment integrity is not being worked on at w3c, and proceeds to explaining how work is brought to w3c and the processes that foster the development of web standards and guidelines that ensure the long term growth of the web. The web environment integrity is a proposed standard by google that introduces an api allowing browsers to verify the integrity of the web environment they operate in. this is done through attester verdicts, which are essentially “seals of approval” from trusted entities. People from google finally give up the wei proposal and reverted all the changes in chromium. instead, they are pursuing a similar proposal, but exclusively for android webview.
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