{"id":1200131,"date":"2023-11-06T16:09:32","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T21:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1200131"},"modified":"2023-11-06T16:09:32","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T21:09:32","slug":"googles-web-integrity-android-api-could-kill-alternative-media-clients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1200131","title":{"rendered":"Google\u2019s \u201cWeb Integrity\u201d Android API could kill \u201calternative\u201d media clients"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Google is killing off<\/a> its proposal for “Web Environment Integrity API” as a new web standard, though Android phones may still have to deal with it. According to Google’s proposal document,<\/a> the primary goal of the project was to “allow web servers to evaluate the authenticity of the device and honest representation of the software stack”\u2014basically Google wanted a DRM gatekeeper for the web. The project got widespread coverage<\/a> in July and was<\/a> widely<\/a> panned<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The ominously vague plan was to allow web browsers to detect if your computer was “modified” in a way that the webpage didn’t like. Presumably, this could be anything from a rooted\/jailbroken phone to having an undesirable plug-in (read: ad blockers) installed. When you tried to access some protected content, a browser supporting the Web Integrity API would first contact a third-party “environment attestation” server, and your computer would have to pass some kind of test. After having your local environment uh… scanned? passing environments receive a signed “IntegrityToken” that points to the content you wanted unlocked. You would bring this back to the web server and would finally get the content unlocked.<\/p>\n

Google’s proposal did not go over well. The explainer was full of conflicting information about just how invasive it wanted to be and what its goals were. Google pinky-promised it wasn’t meant to “enforce or interfere with browser functionality, including plugins and extensions”\u2014this is a vague reference to ad blockers\u2014but also the proposal’s very first example had to do with more accurately measuring ad impressions. Even more alarming was that this wasn’t a discussion\u2014Google never publicized the feature for any kind of feedback, and the company was already actively prototyping the feature in Chrome before the Internet really found out about it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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