WebMCP: Yet Another Fucking Standard to Make My Life Miserable

Oh for fuck’s sake. Just when I thought my day couldn’t get any worse, Microsoft and Google decide they’re going to hold hands and skip through the meadow together, shitting out something called WebMCP. Model Context Protocol, for those of you who speak human.

Let me translate this corporate wank-speak into reality: They want to give AI assistants direct access to your web applications. Because apparently letting ChatGPT fuck around with your browser directly is exactly what the world fucking needs right now.

The premise is simple – Anthropic shat out MCP in November, and now these two corporate giants want to extend it to web browsers. It’s supposed to be like “USB-C for AI” – one connector to rule them all. Which is great, except I’ve seen how well USB-C works when users try to force it in the wrong way round, and now you want to do that with autonomous fucking code?

Here’s how this shit sandwich works: It uses HTTP and Server-Sent Events to let web apps expose “tools” that AI assistants can call directly. No extensions, no native apps, just pure, unadulterated chaos delivered straight to your browser. Your AI wants to control your Spotify web player? Click “Allow” and watch it play “Never Gonna Give You Up” on repeat during your board presentation.

But don’t worry, they’ve thought about security! There’s “user consent” and “granular controls.” Which is tech-speak for “a dialog box that users will click through faster than a horny teenager on a porn site.” The same users who think ‘password123’ is unbreakable are now going to make informed decisions about AI tool permissions. Jesus fucking wept.

Microsoft’s jamming this into Copilot Studio, Google’s ramming it into Chrome. Because those two products are famously problem-free and never cause IT departments to drink heavily. And they want to make it a W3C standard, which means this nightmare will be with us until the heat death of the universe.

The best part? They claim they’re “learning from OAuth’s mistakes.” That’s like a serial arsonist saying they’ve learned fire safety after burning down their third house. These fuckers CREATED the OAuth nightmare we’re still dealing with!

In six months, I’ll be debugging why some executive’s AI assistant deleted the entire customer database. The AI will have used a “cleanup_old_records” tool it found on some web admin panel, and the executive will have clicked “Allow” because they thought it meant “make my computer faster.” And when I explain what happened, they’ll ask me why I didn’t stop it. Why? Because YOU GAVE THE FUCKING AI PERMISSION, you mouth-breathing disaster!

I need a fucking holiday.

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Related Anecdote: Some marketing twat cornered me by the coffee machine, all excited that WebMCP could auto-fill his expense reports. I told him it could also auto-approve charges, auto-submit fraudulent claims, and auto-get-him-fired. He went white and asked if we could block it. I said sure, for a price. He went to his manager. His manager asked me if we could “selectively enable” it. I sent him a 500-page security analysis, cost-benefit report, and a bill for my time. Haven’t heard back. The silence is golden.

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