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Updated the blinky page to inform that WEI has been archived and replaced

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Gianmarco Gargiulo 2023-11-02 22:51:52 +01:00
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## Update 2 nov 2023
**The WEI repository has been archived** and its README file now says they've scrapped the idea and started working on some other DRM-like idea but that's confined to the Android WebView on devices with Google's services. Read more about it [here](https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2023/11/increasing-trust-for-embedded-media.html). I'm still not sure if I will be removing this Chrome block page yet.
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Google's new [**Web Enviromnent Integrity API**](https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity) proposal (and ongoing implementation) is a serious threat to the open internet. It's described as a way to verify the validity and trustworthiness of a client when connecting to a website, but what this really means that it's pretty much **a DRM for the web** since Google could take advantage of it by making popular websites adopt the API and **forcing users of these websites to use Chrome and selected operating systems**. This also means that they're gonna force users to suffer **the Manifest v3 changes that stand in the way of the effectiveness of ad blockers** and get more advanced tracking with **a rate limiting of physical devices feature** [as described in the proposal](https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/blob/main/explainer.md#how-it-works).
Google Chrome retains around **66% of the global web browser market**, Google also has some of the **most popular online platforms** like their search engine, YouTube, AdSense, Maps, Gmail, Android and even the open source Chromium browser used as a base by many browsers such as Edge, Brave, Opera and Vivaldi, which means that any significant change that Google does to Chromium could end up downstream to these forks as well. There's also **Electron-based applications** that could be affected since it's essentially Chromium. By keeping to use their products, **you're encouraging them to tyrannize the internet**, a place that should be platform agnostic and encourage free exchange of ideas and creations. I don't mean to offend, I'm just saying you should seriously consider switching to the many alternatives so that you don't contribute to Google's monopoly.