Chromium derivatives like Vivaldi and Brave decried the Google Web Environment Integrity… um, ‘feature’, at varying volumes, back in the summer when it became widely known.

But can any Chromium-based browser actually avoid implementing this? Have there been more recent statements?

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    1 year ago

    No one is going to avoid implementing it - even if it were technically feasible.

    Imagine a browser that couldn’t be used for YouTube, Gmail, Facebook, et cetera.

    Brave is a bit of a wild-card I guess. Their model is basically non-viable with this change. They’re fucked either way.

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        1 year ago

        They’re not irrelevant.

        You, personally, may not use those websites, but of course you realise that you’re a small minority. Browsers find it hard enough to earn market share as it is, reducing their available market by 99.9% is going to make them non-viable.

        So while you might not use those sites they’re very relevant to a browser’s choice of whether to support WEI.