DeGoogle Yourself

Bug: violation of w3c code of ethics issue was opened 15 hours ago.

It was closed 14 hours ago with the status "completed" without further comment.

The guy who closed it posted an entry a day earlier called "So, you don't like a web platform proposal" on his rarely used blog. It has the appearance of telling people how to critique proposals in a professional way, while being completely dismissive of any communication attempts simultaneously. Perhaps he needs to reflect a little more on his blog entry's subheading "We're all humans", because he doesn't seem keen to address how users who rely on Assistive Technology are going to be able to use his DRM Web.

Edited to add: The code of ethics is for people who work at the W3c, so not entirely applicable anyway.

This is why tech monopolies are bad. Google waited until they had a near monopoly on the browser engine and then pulls this shit. Alternatives still exist though, and people will vote with their actions by either not using Chrome or not using those websites that have DRM.

You should absolutely have web environment integrity. Your browser should not allow the website to do things that you don't approve of, so the integrity of your computer can be ensured.

Wait, that's not what they mean, is it? Oh no … 🙄

Yea, I feel like Google has this a bit backwards. As always, I like to turn the metaphor on it's head. You're not visiting a website, you're inviting a website. You're allowing the website to use your system resources, bandwidth, CPU cycles, etc. And what you do with your own system is none of the websites business. They can protect their business model on the server side, if they need to. But maybe they just need better business models.

Just what the web needed, SafetyNet in your browser. Does anyone have the EFF on speed dial?

Google is fucking evil, and they even admitted it when they changed their motto from Don't Be Evil.

Time to bring back Gopher but with blackjack and hookers.

Let them burn it down for us.

It kinda feels like I’m being chased offline

I use Firefox and LibreWolf trying to avoid Chrome based browsers, but doesn’t Mozilla get the majority of the funding for Firefox development from making Google default search? I’ve purchased a few of Firefox’s paid features, VPN, etc hoping that it would contribute to getting them a new business model.

Denuvo for Chrome when?

Use DRM to encrypt site content. Use DMCA anti circumvention clauses to make ad blocking effectively illegal. Turn everyone into your little b-tch sheep and expose them to unskippable totally irrelevant ads over and over. Execs and shareholders profit.

It's also going to be used to enforce locking down of Android (custom roms, root). You don't have to read very far to find "secure" Android device or them being inspired by Play Integrity.

Just block ads with a local recursive DNS resolver.

Who has read The Master Switch by Tim Wu? It's a great book and that essentially argues every mass communication medium started off as a decentralized playground for hobbyists before consolidating into a centralized profit seeking (or profit-seeking-enabling) entity. It the ends with the question of whether the same destiny awaits the internet.

I remember hoping it didn't, and that hope grows harder to maintain by the day. It's so fucking sad.

I just hope that even if this standard is implemented, the protocol maintains enough of it's flexibility for small enclaves of people who still believe in the technology's original vision to "opt out" of it.

DRMs

It just DRM: no s.

Dang, I liked chrome - ff felt bloated and I could never get into safari. Anything else I could try?