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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait, Google's doing what now?

[–] [email protected] 99 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They want to implement a "feature" so websites only load for you, if your browser, OS and hardware are deemed "trustworthy" aka you load every ad and malware that the website wants to shove down your throat.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh God... I think I'm going to be sick. It's too easy to see how you could weaponize this against dissenters.

Don't like something about our product? Have fun being banned from the internet!

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not even dissenters, just people in general. That's why they're likening it to DRM. Run something nonstandard on your system (ie Linux)? Get with the program. It's a continuation of "you don't own anything, use it how we want you to use it or don't use it at all."

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fuck this goes deeper than I thought

[–] jungekatz 10 points 1 year ago

From what I gathered even if u have installed a browser on ur phone that is not signed by play store or app store google may block it , so fennec / bromium and other f droid products google may decide to tag as malicious !

[–] jungekatz 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Isnt this already a thing with many webapps already , I had to dual boot windows coz some uni websites refused to run detecting linux on my system !

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's just fucked. I guess I'm lucky that my Uni doesn't really give a shit. During the pandemic, they were even chill enough for us to use alternative software here and there, since we weren't allowed to come in and use the PCs on site.

[–] macintosh 1 points 1 year ago

In some cases you can spoof a windows user agent, couldn’t do that with this proposal though.

[–] jungekatz 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are times I build my own browser and OS probably in future ( basically building open souce code , sometimes removing ssignatures and enhancements) , I wonder if I will be able to use stuff then !

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or you could just use Firefox? Mozilla has stated that it opposes this stuff.

[–] jungekatz 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Firefox is my primary browser on my stable systems , I am talking of the side projects ! There is a good possibility that soon the websites will block forks of firefox and other FOSS projects !