Google Tries to Defend Its Web Environment Integrity as Critics Slam It as Dangerous
techreport.com
Google has defended its Web Environment Integrity on the grounds that it aims to make web browsing more private and safe through tokens.

I’m happy to see this being noticed more and more. Google wants to destroy the open web, so it’s a lot at stake.

Google basically says “Trust us”. What a joke.

  • 1984@lemmy.todayOPEnglish
    108·
    1 year ago

    Yes exactly. This is what worries me the most since I also run only Linux, and I can’t imagine even being interested in computers anymore if Linux is not allowed on the web. That would be horrific.

    It’s 100% critically dangerous and must be stopped.

      • Alto@kbin.social
        53·
        1 year ago

        They’ve needed to be broken up for over a decade now, but that’d require the government to actually enforce antitrust/monopoly laws

        • bobs_monkey@lemm.eeEnglish
          181·
          1 year ago

          The FTC is apparently going after Amazon, so I’d be curious to see how that goes

          • Alto@kbin.social
            172·
            1 year ago

            Yup. It’s the first FTC in a long time that’s even tried to do their job. Really hoping they have success.

    • TheHighRoad@lemmy.worldEnglish
      20·
      1 year ago

      What really disturbs me is how the recent tech shenanigans have been a long time coming; seems the internet we have come to know for the last 15 years only existed thanks to the ridiculous interest rates post 2008.

      • Bipta@kbin.social
        9·
        1 year ago

        I’d be interested to hear more of your theory on this:

        the internet we have come to know for the last 15 years only existed thanks to the ridiculous interest rates post 2008.

        • nefarious@kbin.social
          22·
          1 year ago

          I think this article from the Verge explains it pretty well.

          tl;dr:

          • The Fed kept interest rates low from 2008 to 2021. Low interest rates made it easier to borrow money and meant that debt-backed investments like bonds had a low return, so investors favored stocks for a better yield on their investment.
          • This meant tech companies could borrow a ton of money at low interest rates and raise a ton of money from investors through stock sales, allowing them to build services that weren’t profitable in order to grow as rapidly as possible. This basically defined the internet as we know it today - big companies offering free/cheap services with minimal restrictions. Companies could afford to charge low fees and look the other way on things like ad blockers.
          • However, now that interest rates are going up, borrowing is much more expensive and investors are less motivated to buy stock, so all that easy money has dried up. Companies are having to raise revenue by increasing prices, adding more ads, blocking ad blockers, etc.
        • Speff@melly.0x-ia.moeEnglish
          9·
          1 year ago

          Online services cost a lot of money. People don’t realize how much because VCs and corpos w/ deep pockets have been subsidizing most major services for a long time. Now that the free money period is more-or-less over, these services need to start paying the bills with their users - commence enshittification

          • wavebeam@lemmy.worldEnglish
            121·
            1 year ago

            Well it’s not that they “need to pay bills” they make plenty money to pay bills with the revenue they already earn. The issue is that capitalism demands not just profits, but continually increasing profits each quarter.