🔐 What is Web Environment Integrity People Rage About?

Web Environment Integrity is a proposal that may change the way we use the Internet. Lately it got some coverage among not only tech people, but also people focused on privacy and human rights.

In the search of the truth about the proposal I went to the proposal explainer. It’s vague at this point, and is in a rather early stage.

Web Environment Integrity is, long story short, a way for web apps and websites to determine if your hardware and software quality is good enough to visit the app or page.

That’s the simplest definition. The idea is that after visiting a page, the page will be able to ask with JavaScript code your environment quality. The browser will then forward this request to the operating system, and the operating system will respond. The response will be received by the web page, or app. The webpage or app will be able to rate the quality of your software and hardware.

The whole process will be protected by cryptology and protected from tampering with.

Why Web Environment Integrity?

The proposal already considers some troublesome effects of such solution, like for example blocking new operating systems and browser, open source solutions, extensions, ad blockers, tracking, the unique ID…