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A peaceful protest against Web Environment Integrity
(github.com)
I thought this was kind of a fun way to show discontent with Chromiums added Web Integration - someone made a pull request to simply remove it.
Its already been approved by a lot of us, why not add your approval as well? Click the Approve button and add your name to the list of people supporting the removal.
Google will of course not care but I thought it was a fun gesture.
Chromium is by far the dominant browser engine. What they do is effectively the standard and implemented by websites and thus approved. That's why this has to be stopped there.
Once upon a time IE6 was the dominant browser engine.
And there are still WebApps today (especially in the business internal network world) that only work with IE6 because Microsoft was just throwing their own standards out and doing whatever they wanted.
When you are the dominant player and you make standards that no one else can follow, you destroy competition. We got lucky that businesses and developers liked blink and WebKit, if businesses had been able to make more money from only supporting trident that's exactly what would have happened. "Use IE without tabs or an adblocker or you can't access Facebook, Steam, Gmail, your bank, etc"
You don't have the choice as an individual when the choice is made for you.
You have a choice as an individual today, but you might not in a few years.
And it took some painful decades to change that.
Google doesn't care about this protest because it has no real impact on their business. This is more of an emotional thing, this is for us. I'm not saying that people shouldn't fight. But in reality, spreading information about the upcoming change and urging people to switch to other browsers (along with replacing other services) is the only thing that could produce tangible results in the long term. Hence, I tend to agree with the user above.
We will see. It could get picked up by some media person and made into a bigger thing. After all, many developers are approving this at a rapid pace right now, several per minute.
If I was writing an article about this as a tech journalist, I would include that x number of developers have signed a PR trying to remove this shit from chromium. It has a value as a symbolic message.
Post us a graph!
A picture of people who approved so far :)
And the page with a timeline and some comments:
https://github.com/chromium/chromium/pull/187
Luckily "effectively the standard" is just a temporary thing. What browser was considered "standard" has changed many times in the past, and will continue to change in the future. Of course for this to happen everyone who cares must keep on pushing.