Gregory's ServerSince it seems #Google has decided to uni-laterally force through their new anti-#adblock #DRM euphemistically named "Web environment integrity", I decided to add a little bit of code to my website that blanks out the page and displays a protest message with a link to the firefox download page when you visit it from a browser with this DRM feature. Here's the source inside one toot, feel free to copy and put it at the end of your website's <body> before the closing tag:
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I'm using the API from https://github.com/chromium/chromium/blob/6cf344c02b1bcf07114d512ee389894239416007/chrome/test/data/android/environment_integrity.html#L4 here, if you know a better way to detect the presence of the feature, please go ahead and tell me :) @jaseg Well now, I think I'll try adding this to my site! Excellent idea :D Wait, has WEI actually been enabled in Chrome?? I thought this was at the proposal stage. @isomeme Sure, here's the link: https://github.com/chromium/chromium/commit/6f47a22906b2899412e79a2727355efa9cc8f5bd and here's the orange site: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36876301 @becomethewaifu I was never particularly impressed by the governance of the W3C and I personally don't think it provides the amount of democratic legitimacy that would be necessary for an organization of its kind. I would be surprised if as an organization they cared at all for your or my complaints. @ariadne less about W3C and more simply that those doing (or ultimately paying for those doing) the work will have the most impact, right? I understand why that can be concerning, but I also donโt really see how itโs at all avoidable, short of just not cooperating with big $, but that just means youโll end up with multiple competing specs, which isnโt really an attractive proposition either  @rburchell sure, it's not specific at all to W3C, but rather the observation that expecting a trade organization (which is effectively what the W3C has become) to be focused on what the community wants is silly.  @evan @becomethewaifu @jaseg well, i am apologizing for being the bearer of bad news ;)  > things which only have relevance to their interests are pushed, such as Encrypted Media Extensions Does Google even run anything that uses EME? YouTube doesn't... maybe Play Movies? But that's very fringe (and probably happened *after* EME was standard). The only way your argument makes sense is if "their interests" is "having more stuff be accessible on the web". But uh, that sounds like a good alignment for people developing new web standards? @ariadne (if anything I'd say EME is a good example of Google pushing other companies' primary interests - Netflix, Hulu, etc. who want to provide DRM-ed content on the web - because it helps Google's more indirect interests of getting more people using the web, because that's more ads money. I suspect that happens more often than not.) @jaseg Since I still know little about the web, I checked your website right away to see if my browser uses this DRM feature. It doesn't, I see everything fine. But I also use Firefox, so I shouldn't have been surprised. @jaseg Some of my pages have a tiny bit of javascript which replace everything in the page with just "For security reasons please disable javascript". |
<script>if(navigator.getEnvironmentIntegrity!==undefined)document.querySelector('body').innerHTML='<h1>Your browser contains Google DRM</h1>"Web Environment Integrity" is a Google euphemism for a DRM that is designed to prevent ad-blocking. In support of an open web, this website does not function with this DRM. Please install a browser such as <a href="https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/">Firefox</a> that respects your freedom and supports ad blockers.';</script>