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Google's Web DRM is Worse than I Thought... (www.youtube.com)
submitted 1 year ago by Remontoire to c/technology
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This video as a text article: https://blog.nicco.love/google-drms-the-web/

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Methinks there is a history lesson you haven't learned.

MS didn't get into trouble just for bundling their browser. They got into trouble using every strongarm tactic they could think of to kill the browser market. They broke competitors, deliberately crippled APIs while IE used undocumented faster ones, and put IE in customer faces whether they wanted it there or not. MS used this tactic repeatedly to corner other markets, such as productivity suites. That's why MS got nailed.

[–] linearchaos 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

At one point it went from an optional download to being required for the offering system. At that point you weren't allowed to uninstall it.

Of course that was back before the government was completely owned by tech corporations.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Isn't that unchanged? Edge is installed by default and I don't think you can fully remove it..

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It was way worse back then. Nowadays you can actually remove it. Back then they hooked IE into numerous core UI things like the desktop wallpaper and file manager, so any attempt at actually removing it completely fucked your system

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

https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/uninstall-microsoft-edge-windows-11

It's not impossible, but they try pretty hard to prevent it.

  • But that was IE, now they're back at it again

Back then, the US government was three corporations in a trenchcoat, *since then they shed the trenchcoat...