• 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    15·
    1 year ago

    Once upon a time, Google’s official policy was “don’t be evil.” With the rapid progress they’ve made on Web Environment Integrity in such a short time, we can say very safely that their policy is now to pioneer evil.

    Well said

    • cristorf@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      How does the quote go, “die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain” what a shameful fall for Google

  • fiat_lux@kbin.social
    7·
    1 year ago

    The DRM is one of the most hostile proposals to people with disabilities that I have seen in a long while and should have been buried from first showerthought… but holy shit people, there are death threats on the linked github PR. Just no, that is not going to help anyone.

      • Misconduct@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Also waste their time by sending feedback that you’re boycotting them and why. That’s more money they’ll lose having to read and respond to emails etc. If you get a bot response just keep casually replying to the email until a person responds.

      • ilmagico@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        1 year ago

        Unless you also convince the rest of the world to do the same, it’s not gonna work.

        It’s gonna be like with mobile apps, where sure you can root your phone, or use a degoogled android rom, but then your bank will refuse to let you use their app (right now one can still use their website, but if this passes…), and a bunch of other things won’t work by design.

        Me boycotting my bank’s app, or other root-averse apps, or non-google-android-rom averse apps, never stopped them from continuing to do what they do.

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    What confuses me is how Microsoft tried this with Internet Explorer, only allowing Windows tech support on IE. To this day Microsoft forces reinstalls of Edge and only begrudgingly allows for non-edge integration because browser installers force it by twiddling with the registry.

    No one wants to be force fed ads, and as YouTube has demonstrated, Google can’t help itself and will push the envelope of public patience. Sooner than that, I suspect angry Linux engineers will crack through WEI so that every system with their patch looks like a bare bones Chrome terminal.

    We still should block this effort of we can, and push the notion that Google is not being a good-faith custodian of the net, and should be broken up via antitrust laws. Bit ultimately it will do what the UK and red-state anti-porn laws are doing, driving the rest of us underground along with the Anarchists, Lunatics and Terrorists.