Mozilla’s position on WEI is pretty solid.

  • CrypticCoffee@lemmy.mlOPM
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    I don’t think MS implemented it. It’s chromium, they just took the code base. Some browsers actively removed it, but when you’re based on chromium, you start with the code that google gives you.

    MS taking a codebase and doing nothing with it logically makes no sense to imply that Firefox will purposely resource and write code contrary to web freedoms.

    Whether they implement in web search is speculation, they’d be purposefully downranking companies in search for not implementing something that cost them revenue excluding their customers. It would be google vs companies, and it wouldn’t be pretty.

    Either way, state your position. Are you suggesting people should roll over and take it, or move to Firefox, because all this side debate is doing nothing useful.

    • tDSpPd2C9MrT8n@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      I don’t think MS implemented it.

      Their decision is detailed here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/extensions-chromium/developer-guide/manifest-v3

      Whether they implement in web search is speculation

      Sorry if it wasn’t clear from my original comment but yes this is speculation for the future.

      Are you suggesting people should roll over and take it

      I’m suggesting people aren’t going to be given the choice if this is actually pushed through to the full extent that Google is hoping. Fighting against it is obviously the right move but it doesn’t hurt to imagine a future where that fighting has no meaningful effect.

      because all this side debate is doing nothing useful.

      Not all discussions are a debate, and these discussions need to be had.