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Mozilla officially opposes Web Enviroment Integrity API (DRM for web pages proposal from Google) (github.com)

submitted 1 year ago by sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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[–] omgitsaheadcrab@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I still don't get where this proposal originated. It looks like a random user, what's their connection to Google and why do we believe it's even under consideration by the organisation?

Also, <3 ff

[–] sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No organisations put things through in giant blazing neon letters. One employee quietly pushes a bit, another a different bit and ten bits later we're all like, WTF?

Google has been trying to ensure they can serve everyone ads for a while. There's a reason the author of uBlock clearly states that the Chrome version isn't as good.

[–] donnachaidh@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You get to Google pretty quickly by following links. If you look at the top of the linked issue, it links to a few things owned by Rupert Ben Wiser. If you follow the explainer link, you get this list of authors:

Authors: Ben Wiser (Google) Borbala Benko (Google) Philipp Pfeiffenberger (Google) Sergey Kataev (Google)

And in the repo, he says it's being prototyped in Chromium.

That's all written by him though, so I guess he could just be lying and making up names. So I tried looking up his name, to see if he's listed anywhere as a Google employee, but the best I could find is he's listed as a Google employee since 2022 on Facebook and LinkedIn. And he doesn't have much on his Github. (I kinda feel a little stalkery now... Don't harass anyone please). So either this is an elaborate, very late, April fool's or he's probably the fall guy for whatever exec actually thought this up.

[–] omgitsaheadcrab@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

I wasn't really doubting that he was a Google employee, rather more questioning whether the corporation (bare in mind it's huge) is aware of his efforts and this is on their immediate roadmap. It could just be a bunch of employees trying something about/proposing it internally and it might get shot down.

But I take the other commenter's point that this is how it begins

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 1 points 1 year ago

Def not a random user, it came from a committee. There's an attendees list and meeting notes attached to it if you click around a bit