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>>jakobd+(OP)
Google seems to be escalating the speed of its efforts to restrict its user base to the completely non-technical, but Apple and Facebook already own that market.

It also sounds like they're promoting yet another way to make "the internet" slower, more bloated, and have greater impediments to usage.

>>BLKNSL+I6
This proposal only impacts "the web", which has already been going downhill for years now due to unsustainable ad-reliant business models. The internet is fine.

>>treyd+bb
For the vast majority of people, the internet is the web, as well as mobile apps. The latter are already out of the control of users. Today, we at least have browsers that we can mostly force to do what we want (like stop downloading and displaying ads), but WEI will end up restricting portions of the web to users running browsers that do what the web servers want, not what their users want.

And for most people in the world, that is "the internet".

>>kelnos+zj
The distinction is important in my opinion because it means that our technology stack isn't necessarily captured to the root by hostile interests. In these respects, a better world is possible without having to dig everything up and start over, for now.