Google has defended its Web Environment Integrity on the grounds that it aims to make web browsing more private and safe through tokens.

Attacks and doxing make me personally MORE likely to support stronger safety features in chromium, as such acts increase my suspicion that there is significant intimidation from criminals who are afraid this feature will disrupt their illegal and/or unethical businesses, and I don't give in to criminals or bullies

Kick a puppy
Get attacked for kicking a puppy
"These attacks make me MORE likely to keep kicking puppies, as I don't give in to intimidation from criminals and bullies that want healthy puppies for their nefarious ends."

  • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36916444
  • Badland9085@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    They’re literally burning bridges after crossing them huh. Web scraping is illegal? Their fucking search engine was powered by a web scraper.

    WEI is plain anti-competition to me now. Most, if not all, of their stated reasons are now just facade to me.

    Fuck Google. I know this isn’t constructive or helpful, but fuck em.

  • usernotfound@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Kick a puppy

    If you have to resort to false equivalences like these, you're not really making the anti-WEI crowd look good.

    *Edit: * There's some massive misunderstanding about my comment.

    I called it a false equivalency because it's comparing both the measures ("stronger safety") and the thing is supposed to prevent (doxing and bullying) to puppy kicking.

    That's just emotional manipulation done badly. We all call it out when politicians use pedophiles to warrant Internet surveillance, and now apply it ourselves? I don't know about you, but when I see bad reasoning, I'll call it out. Even if it's done by "my side".