Google's next big idea for browser security looks like another freedom grab to some
, Freeman said assumptions about the web being an open standard under which anyone can build a compliant browser have been breaking down for a while now because the software has become so complex.
"If websites are going to require 'this is proven to be one of a small, trusted set of browsers – unmodified from their original behavior – that we believe will, in fact, show our ads to a real user,' then the bar only goes up for building a new web browser."Freeman contends WEI is more than just another barrier to building a competitive browser.
"Elon Musk right now wants everyone to use only official Twitter apps to talk to his service, and Reddit recently went in a similar direction: exposing trusted computing primitives to apps means that they could ensure that only official clients access their sites.
Freeman added,"I do believe Google is at least being honest in their use cases … they are just slanting them in ways that make me upset: publishers have a want for their ad-based business models to work, and they thereby would like to have a way to require users to only use trusted browsers that will comply … while this spec makes it sound like users are demanding the ability to prove to publishers that they are in fact not running an ad blocker.
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