Until last week I was mostly using an old version of Chrome, so had never seen the gate it puts in front of my blog, scripting.com.

Here’s a screen shot of their awful dialog.

An easy FAQ of what they’re doing wrong, why a free web is so important and why you should care.

So far no response from Google or the EFF, also promoting this.

BTW, someone please put us in touch with historian Heather Cox Richardson. I’m a fan and regular reader. But I want to tell her there’s more to tech than the big tech companies. There’s the web, which historians will wish was preserved, instead of being paved over by the big tech companies. This is scandalous. This is happening now. We can help each other by assuring the open web continues, and we get to ask informed questions. Most reporters are intimidated by the tech, we can help there. And btw we can also create tools and publishing platforms that don’t have the lock-in problems of the ones you’re using. And we would love to make software for you, for love, for the cause, not for money.

Compromise? Look for a page called googleIswrong.md on any site it is about to accuse, and offer the reader a chance to hear our side. This is so against any sense of the web being an open platform. My blog should have the ability to hear the case against it and offer a defense.

Think about what comes next, and remember that their CEO goes to public meetings with top US government officials.