Google Tries to Defend Its Web Environment Integrity Critics Slam It as Danger
I find the blatant gaslighting regarding this topic baffling.<p>&gt; Wisner insists that “WEI is not designed to single out browsers or extensions” and that it won’t block browsers that spoof their identity.<p>WEI&#x27;s sole purpose in life is to detect browsers that do things that Google does not like. If it does not block browsers that spoof their identity then what the hell does it do?<p>Sure, sure, WEI won&#x27;t block them: it will just tell the web server that you are not using an approved browser. It&#x27;s not Google&#x27;s fault if the web server then blocks you! How could they have known?<p>I would find it slightly more respectable if Google just came out and said the quiet part out loud: &quot;Our profits and the industry&#x27;s profits are more important than your freedom, so shut up and take it, since you can do nothing about it.&quot;<p>Sneaking around like this is just an insult to our intelligence.