Once upon a time, Google's official policy was "don't be evil." With the rapid progress they've made on Web Environment Integrity in such a short time, we can say very safely that their policy is now to pioneer evil.
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this post was submitted on 28 Jul 2023
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How does the quote go, "die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain" what a shameful fall for Google
Use Firefox.
Google can only act like this because of their market share.
The DRM is one of the most hostile proposals to people with disabilities that I have seen in a long while and should have been buried from first showerthought... but holy shit people, there are death threats on the linked github PR. Just no, that is not going to help anyone.
One guy from 200.
What confuses me is how Microsoft tried this with Internet Explorer, only allowing Windows tech support on IE. To this day Microsoft forces reinstalls of Edge and only begrudgingly allows for non-edge integration because browser installers force it by twiddling with the registry.
No one wants to be force fed ads, and as YouTube has demonstrated, Google can't help itself and will push the envelope of public patience. Sooner than that, I suspect angry Linux engineers will crack through WEI so that every system with their patch looks like a bare bones Chrome terminal.
We still should block this effort of we can, and push the notion that Google is not being a good-faith custodian of the net, and should be broken up via antitrust laws. Bit ultimately it will do what the UK and red-state anti-porn laws are doing, driving the rest of us underground along with the Anarchists, Lunatics and Terrorists.
And what can we do about it to prevent it?
Refuse to use sites/applications that implement it. Embrace the hardship this may create as worth the price.
Unless you also convince the rest of the world to do the same, it's not gonna work.
It's gonna be like with mobile apps, where sure you can root your phone, or use a degoogled android rom, but then your bank will refuse to let you use their app (right now one can still use their website, but if this passes...), and a bunch of other things won't work by design.
Me boycotting my bank's app, or other root-averse apps, or non-google-android-rom averse apps, never stopped them from continuing to do what they do.
How do I de google my android? I didn't know that was a think, I thought my only option was graphene which doesn't work for my hardware or maybe Ubuntu touch which is unoptimized
Also waste their time by sending feedback that you're boycotting them and why. That's more money they'll lose having to read and respond to emails etc. If you get a bot response just keep casually replying to the email until a person responds.
I don't want to live on this planet anymore.
Yeah it gets more disappointing by the year.
seems like there's a new attack on the net every week.
A nice, optimistic song on the same topic:
Rise Against is one of my favourite bands!
One of the best modern rock bands, in my opinion.
We must reject this in every possible way