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samantohermes | karma 42 | avg karma 0.88 · 2019-12-25 10:23:20

> I am using firefox and I dismiss Brave because Chrome already is a monopoly. Firefox only has a tiny minority in total traffic

The only solution is to create a new web standards organization, since Google controls W3C. For example, WebAssembly has a lot of privacy issues.

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prawnsalad | karma 304 | avg karma 4.22 · 2019-12-25 14:45:32

The standards are created by many organisations, not just Google. And then more than one major browser must implement and provide feedback on a proposed standard. We just hear more about Google’s input since they are by far the biggest and have a much larger engineering team than most.

What privacy issues does webassembly have?

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Operyl | karma 4158 | avg karma 2.79 · 2019-12-25 19:55:34

I’ve not heard of any, and spent the last 15-20 minutes looking for any and still haven’t.

jjeaff | karma 13640 | avg karma 2.31 · 2019-12-26 20:21:36+00:00

I don't directly know of any, but I think there is concern of the possibility of privacy issued due to the compiled, non-available source code that web assembly presumably provided.

colordrops | karma 16845 | avg karma 2.8 · 2019-12-27 20:33:22+00:00

Privacy issues in webassembly should not be any harder to detect than minified JS. It doesn't really change the calculus.