Post #2076219
2026-05-06 09:50 UTC
Replies (17)
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@jaffathecake@mastodon.social 2026-05-06 09:50
We now have an 'open web API' that requires you to comply with Google's "terms of use". I know many at Chrome disagree with this, but feel they can't say anything publicly out of fear of internal retribution. https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/1213#issuecomment-4347988313
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@nachtfunke@indieweb.social 2026-05-06 10:01
@jaffathecake what are we as developers supposed to do here? We have literally no say in this whatsoever. It’s a genuine question, what are we supposed to? Because I subjectively feel like we could have done something maybe 10 years ago, but now…?
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@raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie 2026-05-06 11:37
@jaffathecake Google / Alphabet needs to have Android & Chrome divested from them and them kicked out of everything. They are an Advertising agency that cares nothing about local laws or people. Somel finance from Eric Schmidt, who was CEO for a while. Hides from public eye and hardly mentioned in history of Google. He turned it into an advertising agency fuelled by surveillance. Google Analytics and Recaptcha are evil tools they use that no-one should deploy, or any other Google service.
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@dozymoe@mastodon.social 2026-05-06 11:44
@jaffathecake agents in your very browsers
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@clutch_lever@mastodon.social 2026-05-06 11:45
@jaffathecake I've been saying chrome is the new ie for years...
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@bit@ohai.social 2026-05-06 11:50
@jaffathecake Alternatives are available. https://www.firefox.com
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@lemgandi@mastodon.social 2026-05-06 12:21
@jaffathecake Internal politics trumps external reactions every time. I am currently using waterfox, a Clean fork of Firefox ( no AI features, kill switch or no )
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@simonzerafa@infosec.exchange 2026-05-06 12:26
@jaffathecake Given the other shit that Google is shipping the moment, their browser won't be going onto any system that doesn't absolutely need it.
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@thecatburgler@mastodon.social 2026-05-06 12:30
@jaffathecake Google is on the boycott list. They’re too big for anyone’s good & are tied in with the two governments that care more about big brother surveillance and holy wars than their people. I like ecosia (they plant trees for each search) Brave and Firefox are cool too
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@yoasif@mastodon.social 2026-05-06 12:59
@jaffathecake Sounds kind of like how #Mozilla pushed ahead with #AI even after your lying polls about the provenance of training data in translations and the multitude of negative comments here and on Mozilla Connect. Pretty good blind spot for Mozilla - you can only tell when things are bad when your competitors do it. https://www.quippd.com/writing/2026/02/09/firefoxs-ai-kill-switch-is-a-trap-how-mozilla-made-ai-your-problem.html
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@maikel@vmst.io 2026-05-06 13:06
@jaffathecake internet explorer from its grave.
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@Schouten_B@mastodon.social 2026-05-06 14:08
@jaffathecake There's a serious question to be asked about whether an engine shipping things which the broader standards community is opposed to can still be considered a standards compliant browser.
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@Shepard@mas.to 2026-05-06 16:39
@jaffathecake Vivaldi also opposed: https://social.vivaldi.net/@Vivaldi/116527624628906700
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@dannycolin@floss.social 2026-05-06 19:52
@jaffathecake So business as usual :)
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@dpk@chaos.social 2026-05-06 20:32
@jaffathecake You had a job at Google for years defending this crap Where was your outrage about WebUSB? Oh wait, you didn’t have any, because your job was selling that technology to web devs
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@wall_e@ioc.exchange 2026-05-06 20:41
@jaffathecake last time they tried to pull shady shit like that with their Orwellian "Web Environment Integrity" we got them to reverse course and it never exited the prototype stage... So yeah... Let's rage against this
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@slightlyoff@toot.cafe 2026-05-06 21:07
@jaffathecake I'm not sure that scare quotes around web standard are a good look. You, more than nearly anyone, know that's not how anything works.