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[–] Zinggi57 215 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 children)

I think a lot of people here don't understand the danger of this fully and dismiss it with "Just use Firefox, problem solved".
Unfortunately, once this becomes widely available, that is once Chrome ships it, websites will start to use it.
Maybe Amazon will just not sell to you anymore when you're browsing with Firefox?
Maybe YouTube wont serve any videos if you're using Linux?
Your bank will certainly implement this and only allow Windows 11 with Edge or some shit like that.
Once this is implemented, we will all suffer, even if we're using better alternatives right now.

[–] [email protected] 114 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Your bank will certainly implement this

My brother in Christ, it was 2020 before my bank supported passwords longer than 8 characters. We have 30 or 40 years before we need to worry about the banks.

[–] vaultdweler13 36 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Some banks are still running windows 98 internally, admitedly so long as said system isnt connected to the internet it should be fine.

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[–] jungekatz 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I wonder if that would be a valid anti trust violition ?

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[–] [email protected] 176 points 1 year ago (12 children)

For the millionth time, Stallman was right.

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

Yep, you send me html, my browser can interpret it any way that I want it to. If I want to ignore all of the image and script tags, I can. I don't need Chrome or even Chromium. As Stallman says, you should know what is running on your system.

[–] baldingpudenda 42 points 1 year ago (7 children)

We need to go back to html and css. Using an ad blocker and noscript literally breaks webpages. I just want to read the article! You know the content ppl actually come for

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

But how is all the bloat going to get to you then? HTML with some images is equally functional and loads in a fraction of the time, because it is actually efficient. Nobody could want that could they?

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[–] [email protected] 112 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (12 children)
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[–] [email protected] 111 points 1 year ago (21 children)

Stop using chrome. Yes brave is chrome

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[–] [email protected] 94 points 1 year ago (1 children)

DRM is stupid because it interferes with paying customers and isn’t effective. If there’s a will there’s a way

[–] AndreyAsimow 43 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I guess we have to get a subscription on top of our monthly internet bill to use the internet.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Can't wait to have to subscribe to everything and they'll still sell my data

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[–] jungekatz 79 points 1 year ago (14 children)

One more time if anyone says that capitalism breeds innovation we need to show them this ¡!

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago (7 children)

restricted capitalism does that. regular capitalism makes monopoly.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago

This is innovation though, an internet wide DRM would be quite an impressive technical feat. It's just not innovation built to benefit you and me, it's built to benefit Google's true customers, advertisers

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[–] Chatotorix 76 points 1 year ago (16 children)

Like, seriously, went through the last 10 years spending a good chunk of my day on Twitter and Reddit using Chrome, and suddenly I'm on Lemmy/Mastodon on Firefox.

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[–] fabio1 73 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Google in 2004: don’t be evil Google in 2023: turns into Dr. Evil

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

Something-something die as a hero or become the villain.

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 year ago

"What's internet? It it like Googlenet but worse?"

-Some kid in the future

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 year ago (6 children)
[–] [email protected] 82 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

No no, they changed their beer. I hear they added more hops to it.

[–] Viking_Hippie 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Changing a beer to an IPA is actually a pretty good analogy, according to this beer lover who doesn't like overly hoppy ones..

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Plus the paid streaming services adding ads back in and they are all the SAME fucking ads?

🎶 Do what you want because a pirate is a free, you are a pirate! 🎶

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reddit don't have IPA on tap anymore?

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ah yes, 2023. The year I wore a pirate hat and touched more grass. Soon they'll be bribing the govt to make going outside illegal.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (2 children)

We'll make out own internet! With blackjack and hookers!

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does anyone else think that maybe this may cause a shift back to times before internet

[–] RhetoricalOrator 71 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly, reddits API change was an awful thing to do but my phone usage has plummeted since then. I've been trying Lemmy but it's not been an easy 1:1 replacement and I find myself not engaging or feeling so invested in conversations and content as much.

That works in my favor, though, because I really have been spending way too much time looking at screens anyway.

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[–] Admax 35 points 1 year ago

Honestly this is just depressing. And a little scary ?

Corporate greed is taking new heights and the things we took for granted are being taken away. It is all so dystopic...

Yeet.

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

Wait, Google's doing what now?

[–] [email protected] 99 points 1 year ago (4 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 (5 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."

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[–] AndreyAsimow 31 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Why watch the news when you can learn everything from memes

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[–] HexesofVexes 27 points 1 year ago (4 children)

For those interested in actively opposing this - the following blog offers some advice on how to do so.

https://blog.yoav.ws/posts/web_platform_change_you_do_not_like/

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

Dyslexic's being attacked by that font

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I'm used to dealing with DRM, too. If it can be stripped out of a game or other software, it could be stripped out of the internet itself. Maybe some of the old cracking scenes that quit due to boredom will return for the challenge.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

tbh I'm just tired of all of this, we can't have nice things, ever... Every fucking thing in this world is being swallowed by corporate greed. Every service there's a catch, and I'm getting mad with it, things aren't made to serve their purpose, they only exist to make money and more money for people who already have infinite money, it's frustrating. Things need to change or everything is going to collapse... fuck companies, fuck billionaires, fuck stocks, fuck all of this

[–] MrKristijan 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Well, well, well, would you look at that? We've done full circle, haven't we? It's time to go back to the old internet again.

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