Aug 02, 2023 15:00:00

Web browser Brave also strongly opposes 'Web Environment Integrity' promoted by Google

Following

the web browser Vivaldi and the Free Software Foundation , the web browser Brave also expressed opposition to `` Web Environment Integrity (WEI) '' that Google aims to formulate for `` healthy Internet ''.

'Web Environment Integrity': Locking Down the Web | Brave
https://brave.com/web-standards-at-brave/9-web-environment-integrity/

Peter Snyder, vice president of privacy engineering and senior privacy researcher at Brave, said the WEI 'is just part of Google's ongoing effort to remove browser users from controlling how they browse, interact and use the web. ” and expressed.

For example, Google makes it easy for sites to bypass content blockers with ``

WebBundle '', making it difficult for users to block or filter content, and ``First Party Sets '' makes it difficult to choose sites that allow user tracking. Mr. Snyder said.

Snyder also points out that Google has weakened extensions, making it harder for users to control their web experience by disabling ad- and tracker-blocking extensions like uBlock Origin. I'm here.

Snyder argues that the 'web' is the world's most popular and most important open system for sharing information and distributing applications. On top of that, it is important not to turn the web into a black box that users cannot inspect, understand, or operate, and the WEI proposed by Google will move the web from users to the hands of giant websites and advertisers. showed rebellion.

In addition, the various functions that Google 'makes it difficult to control the web experience' pointed out by Mr. Snyder have been disabled in Brave or have been changed in some way.

Brave once judged that the web display acceleration framework `` AMP '' promoted by Google was also `` harmful to users '' and installed the automatic avoidance function `` De-AMP ''.

Brave, which regarded Google's AMP as 'harmful to users', has an AMP automatic avoidance function - GIGAZINE