IMPORTANT!! Google is trying to fuck with us again

Google is trying to push for a new web standard that implements DRM onto web browsers, eliminating user agent spoofing and other "illegitimate" clients. Their excuse is that it will remove the need for hostile fingerprinting, but this is a blatant lieーnot only is fingerprinting in their best interest for datamining purposes, but it's counter-intuitive to enforce a browser's identity and then claim it's less identifiable.

This proposal will give Google and possibly other tech giants total control over what browsers are deemed "legitimate", it will hurt crawling tools like archive.is and web.archive.org and it will allow web developers to lock you into using a browser that is not free (as in freedom). The freedom of the codebase does not matter here, the browser is not free if you are not free to use it how you want without being punished.

Through the week, it has already recieved lots of backlash. Google has already implemented the API in Blink and it is going to be rolled out to various other Chromium forks in no time at all. Please spread the word. Here is a good article that summarizes what everyone needs to know, share it.