Browsers such as Brave, Vivaldi and Firefox refuse to accept Google dispute tracking WEI API

Thanks to CTOnews.com netizen Coje_He for the clue delivery! CTOnews.com, August 1 (Xinhua)-- after Google recently launched an experimental Web Environment Integrity (Web Environment Integrity) API for Chromium browsers, browsers such as Brave, Vivaldi and Mozilla publicly announced their rejection of the API.

CTOnews.com Note: the network environmental integrity API released its proposal in April this year and officially released it in May. After it was integrated into the proposed draft specification in late July, it sparked a wide debate among developers and users in the circle.

Google claims that this is a way to determine whether browsers are trustworthy and to help prevent fraud and other bad behavior; the goal is to learn more about people on the other side of the web browser and make sure they are not robots. And the browser has not been modified or tampered with in any unauthorized way.

Brendan Eich, chief executive of Brave, thought it was a piece of rat shit that Google put into Chromium's soup.

Julien Picalausa, a Vivaldi browser engineer, also publicly opposed the proposal, warning that it gives decisive rights to certain entities and violates the principle of an open network.

Brian Grinstead, an Mozilla engineer, responded to these concerns by pointing out that the proposal "contradicts our principles":

Detecting fraudulent and invalid traffic is indeed a challenging problem, and we are interested in participating and helping to solve it.

However, this proposal does not explain how it can make substantial progress on the listed use cases and will bring obvious shortcomings when actually adopted.

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