Fighting for the open web.

#krita #MastoArt #ArtWithOpensource
#Firefox #Privacy #Chrome #WebEnvironmentIntegrity

@davidrevoy Amazing artwork!

Is there a 4K version of this picture? This looks like wallpaper material! :)

@graves501 Thanks, yes! 3840x2047px , Check the links at the bottom of https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/viewer/misc__2023-07-27_Fighting-For-The-Open-Web_by-David-Revoy.html

@davidrevoy Beautiful! Wow

@davidrevoy This is great!

@grindcrank @davidrevoy Hi, I'm brand new to Mastodon. Is the boost button like an upvote/like/heart from other social media sites.

@DreitonLullaby Hey, welcome here.

The boost button does 'reshare' the post to your followers.

The star is to like/fav something.

@grindcrank

@davidrevoy

Sees the UBlock Origin logo in the shield.
Epic. We must also protect adblockers, not just Firefox (which is important in its own way). Advertising has become completely untrustworthy with the use of extensive data tracking and such, and it's just irritating to see just how much companies are willing to exploit you just so you can buy whatever's on the screen now.

@davidrevoy Ah, thanks very much. I was a bit confused. I saw the star and immediately thought it was the upvote button, and thought the boost button looks like a share button. But than when I saw it was for 'boosting', I figured that an upvote is usually meant for boosting and that that's what the boost button was the equivalent of.

And Hey, I love your artworks and your artstyle so much! So you're now the first profile I've followed! You appeared up the top of the trending list for me.

@DreitonLullaby awww. Thanks!

@davidrevoy

Sees the UBlock Origin logo in the shield.

Epic. We must also protect adblockers, not just Firefox (which is important in its own way). Advertising has become completely untrustworthy with the use of extensive data tracking and such, and it's just irritating to see just how much companies are willing to exploit you just so you can buy whatever's on the screen now.

@davidrevoy What is an Open web? Darknet?

@lutfulmanan
For me open web means everyone can access every page of the open web with software based on open standards.
You should not need special Hardware or an approved official unmodified browser or DRM or have an ip address from a specific ip range. A browser which understands html, css and javascript should be enough.

@lutfulmanan @davidrevoy it's not Google Chrome Edge...

I've many things at the office that only works with Edge 😅

@davidrevoy @lutfulmanan
TorBrowser, based on Firefox, while typically considered a darkweb browser, is a quality alternative. Even Firefox in its vanilla, un-hardened state, sends a lot of data and telemetry to Google, Cloudflare and Amazon.

An add-on that can be often used with TorBrowser is #uBlock. It is included with TorBroswer in #TailsOS, for example.

Another good addo is Block CloudFlare MITM Attack.

If you use linux, block Google with this firewall setup.

https://notabug.org/dfca/dfca

@lutfulmanan @davidrevoy
« Open Web » means a Web for everyone, not just a handful of companies and governments. The web should be like a resource that belongs to no one. Google, however, has recently been trying to monopolize it by setting up proprietary standards.
It's worrying, because that's not what the web was made for.

@lutfulmanan Simply a web on which you can browse with the software you want from the OS you want, which has become unacceptable for Alphabet/Google.

@davidrevoy

@lutfulmanan @davidrevoy Internet, where one massive company doesn't get to choose who can use the it.

@lutfulmanan @davidrevoy A web where the users are in control and are not forced to watch ads and to give up private data.

@lutfulmanan @davidrevoy
Here is an open web and a closed web:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Garden_orb_weaver05.jpg

@lutfulmanan The Open Web is the Web we still have for now.

Someone saw those embarrassing "Best viewed with Microsoft Internet Explorer" GIFs and thought that not only was it a great idea, it didn't even go far enough, as it didn't actively block other browsers.

That's "Web Environment Integrity".

@davidrevoy

Here is the painting process of the illustration I posted today. Painted and created with the built-in Krita recorder.

Source file and high resolution wallpaper:: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/viewer/misc__2023-07-27_Fighting-For-The-Open-Web_by-David-Revoy.html (3840x2047px, license: CC-BY 4.0)

#Mastoart #ArtWithOpensource #krita #video #process

@davidrevoy
Hop, new wallpaper obtained !

Amazing art

@davidrevoy Love your work, David. And it’s definitely not your fault that we live in the worst possible timeline but what’s missing in that image is the hand from Google giving Mozilla half a billion dollars.

(Mozilla exists on roughly half a billion dollars from Google every year. Sadly, they’re not so much adversaries as partners.)

@aral Thanks!

Yes, I knew that. Thank you for writing this, it is useful information.

It's hard to show all the subtle interactions and I had to sit on my own issues with Moz/Ff - e.g. all their failed non-sense side projects or recently their AI discourse to seduce investors.

It's a limitation of my illustration that I kept it as simple as possible to be more efficient with the message: if we all used Firefox with UblockOrigin, the toxic adv industry wouldn't be such a monster.

@aral What does this partnership entail? Is FF doing something beneficial for Google to get their money?

@davidrevoy

@laukanhenkka @aral @davidrevoy they set Google to be the default search engine in FF

@laukanhenkka Google is a publicly-traded corporation with a fiduciary duty to its shareholders.

They cannot just give some organisation half a billion dollars unless they can make the case that they’re getting more than half a billion dollars of value back from their investment.

Most visibly, Mozilla makes Google its default search engine on Firefox.

More than that, Mozilla gets to exist thanks to Google. No half a billion a year from Google, no Mozilla, no Firefox.

@davidrevoy

@laukanhenkka @aral @davidrevoy

Well, a huge benefit Google gets from keeping FF afloat is that Google gets to make the disingenous claim that they aren't a monopolist, which politicians and regulators get to use as a deflection when criticized for failing to regulate them.

@toolbear Yep.

And if Google is seen as having too much vested interest in lobbying for a certain subject regarding regulation, Mozilla can step in as the acceptable face of Silicon Valley.

As their head of public policy once told me while asking me to go easier on them: “We’re just another Silicon Valley tech company, I don’t know why you’re holding us to such a higher standard.”

@laukanhenkka @davidrevoy

@toolbear And how does this make FF the bad guys or partners in crime? I mean, wouldn't it be even worse if they weren't around?

Sounds to me like the bad guys are google, politicians and regulators in that example.

@aral @davidrevoy

@laukanhenkka What would you think if Greenpeace only existed because they took half a billion dollars from ExxonMobil every year?

If you’d be OK with that too, I have nothing more I can say.

@toolbear @davidrevoy

@aral That would be bad for sure, but Google isn't the ExxonMobil equivalent though so it doesn't really work as a comparison. Maybe if ExxonMobil funded Neste (a finnish petrol company) in that comparison it would work.

@toolbear @davidrevoy

@davidrevoy For a thread about #foss vs #gacemafia #bigtech there is a lot of tracking going on from third party linking…

Just while typing this, #uBlockOrigin show additional 3 attempt of #tracking

Try to think of this.. (MarkDown Table)

@davidrevoy This is awesome

@davidrevoy That looks really good!

@davidrevoy This drawing is amazing!
By the way, is the (fire)fox inspired by TUNIC?

@davidrevoy
Et sinon BRAVO, quel talent 👏

@gub Merci ! Oui, bien vue pour le passage passé à la trappe du code binaire. j'avais en tête un champs de ces 0 et 1 et que le gros Chrome serait comme une moissoneuse de data en aspirant ça. Mais bon, ça faisait cliché, et ça s'intégrait assez mal dans l'aspect painting et touche du pinceau de l'illu. J'ai donc passé le calque à la trappe en cours de route. 😋

@davidrevoy this one is really great ... I mean all of your work is great, but I love that one !

@hyde 😊 Thank you!

@davidrevoy
This is fantastic work! 👀 Very inspiring 😍
We are lucky to have you in the #Fediverse.

@imarfisi

@davidrevoy can I use your art in the last chapter of my habilitation thesis to direct research? How should I cite it properly?
Thank you.

@imarfisi Hey, sure! You can copy the line under my artwork here: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/viewer/misc__2023-07-27_Fighting-For-The-Open-Web_by-David-Revoy.html , it contains the title, my name and the license.