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Google is working on essentially putting DRM on the web (github.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The much maligned "Trusted Computing" idea requires that the party you are supposed to trust deserves to be trusted, and Google is DEFINITELY NOT worthy of being trusted, this is a naked power grab to destroy the open web for Google's ad profits no matter the consequences, this would put heavy surveillance in Google's hands, this would eliminate ad-blocking, this would break any and all accessibility features, this would obliterate any competing platform, this is very much opposed to what the web is.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (5 children)

For now. They're boiling the frog slow.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Microsoft doesn't control the standard, and the entire rest of the industry has no reason to ban non-Windows operating systems.

Widnows doesn't have the stranglehold over the market that it once did.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I hope you're right. Microsoft could try incentivising a shift.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The entire internet depends on machines running linux as servers. I highly doubt that any company has the power to change that

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, it's not likely for server racks. Laptops, though, seem somewhat plausible. I'm actually pretty happy with the momentum on tech issues now, on the other hand. I hear stories about right to repair in normal media, my country is in a straight-up showdown with big tech, and GDPR is well established.

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