Google's Web Integrity API branded 'attack on the open web'

Search giant steps up plans to control the internet

Tom Allen
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Google wants to remove bots from the web, but the technical community says its approach is "completely unethical"
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Google wants to remove bots from the web, but the technical community says its approach is "completely unethical"

A working draft specification for a new browser API from Google has raised outcry from the technical community about ethics, trust and adding DRM to the internet. The Web Environment Integrity A...

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