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created: 20230301080208442
creator: Octt
modified: 20231107220850311
modifier: Octt
tags: Web Modern
title: Issues of the Modern Web
* ~~Just in, 2023/July:~~ [[Web Environment Integrity API Proposal|https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity]] --- //[[This is scary. It's (strong) SafetyNet for websites [...]|https://mastodon.uno/@lina@vt.social/110755246339815796]]//
** 2023/November update: [[Google bins integrity API that looked more than a bit like horrible DRM for websites|https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/02/google_abandons_web_environment_integrity/]]... but not completely: it will still be integrated into [[Android]] System Webview, for some reason
* Reign of [[Surveillance Capitalism]].
** Full of advertisements, and trackers.
* Technically problematic:
** Even simple text+images websites are full of megabytes of useless components.
*** This wisdom tends to verify as more truthful the more you test it against websites of more big players, or entities that are on the web just for money.
** Web Browsers are in themselves Operating Systems.
*** Only [[The 3 Web Players]] can keep up with constantly evolving standards requiring corporate-level organization for development, and the risk for a [[Google]] monopoly is real.
*** Every month or so each browser engine has a new critical vulnerability.
* Has more noise than information:
** Search engines are each day less effective, as pages/articles or full sites written to game SEO pop-up, sinking real information in noise - with entire industries dedicated to profiting this way.
*** Real people who just want to create real content suffer the most.