https://vivaldi.com/blog/googles-new-dangerous-web-environment-integrity-spec/ https://vivaldi.com/blog/googles-new-dangerous-web-environme... says: > It would

https://vivaldi.com/blog/googles-new-dangerous-web-environment-integrity-spec/ https://vivaldi.com/blog/googles-new-dangerous-web-environme... says: > It would provide websites with an API telling them whether the browser and the platform it is running on that is currently in use is trusted by an authoritative third party (called an attester). And https://www.xda-developers.com/google-web-environment-integrity-api/ https://www.xda-developers.com/google-web-environment-integr... says: > The proposal threatens the free and open internet in a number of ways, but one of the biggest revolves around the fact that should there be a central server that attests to whether a browser can be trusted or not, it means that anything non-standard will not be trusted. In other words, new browsers would not be trusted, and legacy software would no longer be able to access much of the internet after a certain length of time. Given that it verifies the integrity of the browser, it could also technically block certain extensions (such as Adblock) if Google were to go down that route.