#chrispalmer — Public Fediverse posts

And like those men, the programmers behind this harebrained scheme don't imagine that it will ever apply to them. As #ChrisPalmer - who worked on Chromium - points out, this is not compatible with normal developer tools or debuggers, which are "incalculably valuable and not really negotiable":

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/Ux5h_kGO22g/m/5Lt5cnkLCwAJ

This proposal is still obscure in the mainstream, but in tech circles, it has precipitated a flood of righteous fury:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/googles-web-integrity-api-sounds-like-drm-for-the-web/

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