Web environment integrity (WEI) is a proposal for an API originated by Google, whose stated goal is to 'allow web servers to evaluate the authenticity of the device and honest representation of the software stack and the traffic from the device'.
An explainer posted on github covers more details from the point of view of Google.
WEI has attracted criticism from the free software foundation, who likened it to 'DRM for the web' and from others, e.g. Brave, Vivaldi.
Will resolve YES if before midnight Dec 31, 2024 an official statement by Google has appeared, claiming that work on WEI has been discontinued, suspended indefinitely or otherwise abandoned and no official article or post has appeared on the free software foundation website or sister sites such as defectivebydesign.org claiming that, despite Google's announcement, WEI has merely changed name/been integrated into some broader framework.
Will resolve to NA if either Google or the free software foundation cease to exist before midnight Dec 31, 2024.
Will resolve to NO otherwise.
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I was wrong:
https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2023/11/increasing-trust-for-embedded-media.html?m=1
“We’ve heard your feedback, and the Web Environment Integrity proposal is no longer being considered by the Chrome team.”
Seems like an official statement to me!
@nottelling2ccc Yes, indeed. Even the repo is archived. I will wait to see whether the FSF reacts to this (per resolution criteria)
@mariopasquato Yeah, while “Web Environment Integrity” proposal is officially abandoned, so this question will probably resolve NO, Google apparently continues with the new (and, arguably, narrower) “Android WebView Media Integrity API”. We’ll see whether after this gains some traction, Google goes on to (silently?) expand it to Chrome and the whole web…
@nottelling2ccc Right, probably I should make a related question that resolves based on inactivity in the repo or something