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Unpacking Google’s Web Environment Integrity specification

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756 points dagurp | 3 comments | 26 Jul 23 11:30 UTC | HN request time: 0.852s | source
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bee_rider ◴[26 Jul 23 18:31 UTC] No.36882605[source]▶
As noted in the article, Google comes up with a scheme like this every couple months. They also can’t seem to identify good sites anymore, based on their search results.

So… fuck it. Let them DRM their part of the internet. It is mostly shit nowadays anyway. They can index Reddit, X, and a bunch of sites that are GPT SEO trash.

We’re never getting 201X internet back anyway, so let Google and friends do their thing and everybody who doesn’t want anything to do with it can go back to the 200X internet. It was kind of disorganized but it it better than fighting them on DRM over an over again.

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lambic ◴[26 Jul 23 18:47 UTC] No.36882868[source]▶
What are 200X and 201X internets?
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1. zls ◴[26 Jul 23 18:53 UTC] No.36882964[source]▶
decades :)

If we had known how fleeting the glory of the early 2010s internet would be, with everything ad-free and seo still comparatively rudimentary, would that have made it easier or harder to watch it die?

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2. nfw2 ◴[26 Jul 23 21:44 UTC] No.36885525[source]▶
Everything was free because interest rates were nothing, and every startup could use investor capital to cover their costs
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3. lambic ◴[27 Jul 23 14:37 UTC] No.36894281[source]▶
And everything was simpler, you could throw something up on a $10/month shared host. Now you need a full stack of services running in the cloud charged by the minute.