Web Environment Integrity: Difference between revisions

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* On July 29, the [[Free Software Foundation]] opposed it as "an all-out attack on the free Internet" and claimed it would significantly limit the browsers that could be used.<ref>{{Cite web |first=Greg|last=Farough|date=2023-07-28 |title="Web Environment Integrity" is an all-out attack on the free Internet |url=https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/web-environment-integrity-is-an-all-out-attack-on-the-free-internet |website=Free Software Foundation |access-date=2023-07-28 |language=en }}</ref>

* On August 1, [[Brave (web browser)|Brave Software]] announced they will not include WEI in their web browser.<ref>{{Citation |last=Snyder |first=Peter |title="Web Environment Integrity": Locking Down the Web |date=2023-08-01 |url=https://brave.com/web-standards-at-brave/9-web-environment-integrity/ |access-date=2023-08-29 |language=en |mode=cs1}}</ref>

* On August 7, the [[Electronic Frontier Foundation]] opposed it as "a bad idea that Google should not pursue" and opposed its proposal of selecting a "small percentage" of random users to simulate behavior without WEI in order to prevent websites from blocking unattested users. The EFF claimed that "[m]any websites will consider that “small'small percentage”percentage' of users an acceptable price to pay" and feared Google would set the percentage extremely low to combat [[ad fraud]].<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Doctorow |first1=Cory |last2=Hoffman-Andrews |first2=Jacob |date=2023-08-07 |title=Your Computer Should Say What You Tell It To Say |url=https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/08/your-computer-should-say-what-you-tell-it-say-1 |access-date=2023-08-07 |website=www.eff.org}}</ref>

* On August 11, the [[World Wide Web Consortium]] refrained from taking a stance as it was "not being worked on in W3C, nor has there been any submission [for W3C] review".<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-08-11|url=https://www.w3.org/blog/2023/web-environment-integrity-has-no-standing-at-w3c/|title=Web Environment Integrity has no standing at W3C; understanding new W3C work|access-date=2023-08-11|website=www.w3.org}}</ref>