If Google does this, I'll switch to sharing news stripped of ads via p2p.

I'm so sick of this bullshit. AMP, Manifest V2, buying their way into every corner of the web, ...

In the meantime, please call your legislators and regulators. Tell them Google's too big to be allowed to have a web browser and that one solution is splitting out their business units.

That's a good point, what do you use the Internet for anyways? News, banking, governmental rituals, maybe searching for a book or a topic to learn. Sometimes a work meeting or an email or wasting time watching YouTube or listening to music. These all don't need drm or whatever. Some don't even need internet, you can just download files like your grandfather did 10 years ago

> banking

A commonly repeated concern is that if WEI is implemented, banks will leap on it and it will become infeasible to do online transactions at most banks without either using a WEI-blessed software / hardware configuration or the bank's app in a commercial app store.

Banks don't need the "anonymous" part of the WEI, just the "authentic" chain of trust as in am I really identifying a life person rather than a robot impersonation.

Banks are lazy, they shouldn't need to rely on infrastructure of commercial app stores, blessed devices since they've already proven they could develop it themselves (chip cards, dongles, time-based one time codes, etc.).

WEI is mainly aimed at suppressing the unauthenticated noise, when reading a signal from GET requests (ie tracking) that was never meant to convey any information beyond what is asked for, in the first place.

I'm not really seeing how we're reaching that conclusion. Suppressing GET request noise isn't any of the use cases described at https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/...