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This tweet highlights Project NERA, which seems consistent with their actions to date. > Google had a plan called "Project NERA" to turn the web into a walled
by underwater 5y ago
This tweet highlights Project NERA, which seems consistent with their actions to date.
> Google had a plan called "Project NERA" to turn the web into a walled garden they called "Not Owned But Operated". A core component of this was the forced logins to the chrome browser you've probably experienced (surprise!) [1]
This is classic 90s Microsoft playbook. Detangling the web from Google is getting harder and harder over time.
1: https://mobile.twitter.com/fasterthanlime/status/1452053941504684036 https://mobile.twitter.com/fasterthanlime/status/14520539415...
- greenyoda 5y agoA big discussion of that tweet can be found here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28974798 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28974798
- xg15 5y ago> Google wanted to be able to control and close off independent websites like The Dallas Morning News just as Google can control and close off its own sites like YouTube. Worth noting that they have this ability today through HTTPS certificate management. The web increasingly moves to HTTPS (pushed by Google among others) and Google is also operating one of a small number of cert transparency logs - in addition to the Chrome browser. If they don't like a site, they can blacklist the certificate in Chrome - to cut it off from Chrome users immediately - and block acceptance of new certificates from the CT log, which will cut off the site from other browsers once the current certificate expires.
- my123 5y agoNo need for that, Google Safe Browsing exists if they want to. However, I don’t think that Google is _that_ evil/willing to do so at this point.