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Google is ruining the entire web (feddit.de)
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[-] MTLion3@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago

They’re adding DRM? In what way?

[-] TeddE@lemmy.world 68 points 1 year ago

Basically by allowing websites to refuse to load unless the browser the operating system running the browser promises that the user isn't allowed to know what the computer is doing. And Google super duper promises this won't be used for evil.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/googles-web-integrity-api-sounds-like-drm-for-the-web/

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

allowing websites to refuse to load unless the browser the operating system running the browser promises that the user isn’t allowed to know what the computer is doing

So they won't support Linux anymore?

[-] TeddE@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

That seems to be the message everyone is drawing from this.

I think it'll be more insidious than that, there will be Linux, but only "signed, verified" Linux will be allowed, and the only Linux distributions that will make that list are the ones with corporate or government versions. Specifically distributions like Google's Android, IBM's Red Hat, Canonical's Ubuntu, and China's Kylin.

This is still as horrible. Imagine Ubuntu winning the snap vs flatpack exchange, because their OS is 'legit', whereas every other distro is pushed out, because it's too much work to install an unsigned OS.

[-] MTLion3@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I’m sure they fucking do lol Glad I use a combination of it, Firefox, and Opera GX now to diversify

[-] msage@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago

Everything not Firefox or Safari is Chromium based.

[-] MTLion3@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Then I guess I'm still glad that's in my mix lol

[-] brihuang95@sopuli.xyz 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You can read a little about it here

I also encourage you to look at the GitHub...be warned that there are some quite angry folks on there

[-] MTLion3@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

Understandable lol

this post was submitted on 30 Jul 2023
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