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this post was submitted on 03 Nov 2023
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Google’s Web Enviroment Integrity API > this is dead now.
This wont amount to anything. Social media in general will die out, if you look at things people are going back to chats (Whatsapp and others) and Forums (reddit, lemmy etc) because those platforms are what actually deliver the core value. The chat problem was already solved in 1999 with the introduction of XMPP* and the forum problem, well we've had niche forums since ever and eventually got Lemmy.
* too bad big social media companies decided to fuck up and roll their own vendor locking garbage instead of just using XMPP in a open way like Cisco and others did back in the day.
WEI is only as dead as public perception lets it be. They already replaced it with a "more palatable" version of the same thing.
They will save the idea and repackage it and release it later to much less fanfare. It was only because people were paying attention that it got caught this time. WEI didn't have a ton of Google backing media. It was mostly commits to chromium development with people taking note of them.
They said they'll release it as a limited feature to the webview used by apps.
Don't be deceived by the 'limit' on it. Now they can develop it away from public scrutiny and then expand it easily, gradually and silently in scope. The only safe version of WEI is a dead version.
Google will just wait it out, like they did with FLoC which was rebranded under the Browsing Topics API name.