{"id":168642,"date":"2023-07-30T02:22:24","date_gmt":"2023-07-30T07:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/browser-developers-push-back-on-googles-web-drm-wei-api"},"modified":"2023-07-30T02:22:24","modified_gmt":"2023-07-30T07:22:24","slug":"browser-developers-push-back-on-googles-web-drm-wei-api","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/browser-developers-push-back-on-googles-web-drm-wei-api","title":{"rendered":"Browser developers push back on Google\u2019s \u201cweb DRM\u201d WEI API"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/browser-developers-push-back-on-googles-web-drm-wei-api3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Google\u2019s plans to introduce the Web Environment Integrity (WEI) API on Chrome has been met with fierce backlash from internet software developers, drawing criticism for limiting user freedom and undermining the core principles of the open web.<\/p>\n<p>Employees from Vivaldi, Brave, and Firefox have taken a strong, opposing stance against Google\u2019s proposed standard, and some have gone as far as to call it DRM (digital rights management) for websites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google\u2019s plans to introduce the Web Environment Integrity (WEI) API on Chrome has been met with fierce backlash from internet software developers, drawing criticism for limiting user freedom and undermining the core principles of the open web. Employees from Vivaldi, Brave, and Firefox have taken a strong, opposing stance against Google\u2019s proposed standard, and some [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}