this post was submitted on 21 Jul 2023
835 points (100.0% liked)

Technology

37717 readers
404 users here now

A nice place to discuss rumors, happenings, innovations, and challenges in the technology sphere. We also welcome discussions on the intersections of technology and society. If it’s technological news or discussion of technology, it probably belongs here.

Remember the overriding ethos on Beehaw: Be(e) Nice. Each user you encounter here is a person, and should be treated with kindness (even if they’re wrong, or use a Linux distro you don’t like). Personal attacks will not be tolerated.

Subcommunities on Beehaw:

This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
alyaza@beehaw.org
TheRtRevKaiser@beehaw.org
gyrfalcon@beehaw.org
rs5th@beehaw.org
Los@beehaw.org
coldredlight@beehaw.org
SemioticStandard@beehaw.org
TheRtRevKaiser@kbin.social
remington@beehaw.org
835
Google is working on essentially putting DRM on the web (github.com)
submitted 1 year ago by jherazob@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org
271 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

The much maligned "Trusted Computing" idea requires that the party you are supposed to trust deserves to be trusted, and Google is DEFINITELY NOT worthy of being trusted, this is a naked power grab to destroy the open web for Google's ad profits no matter the consequences, this would put heavy surveillance in Google's hands, this would eliminate ad-blocking, this would break any and all accessibility features, this would obliterate any competing platform, this is very much opposed to what the web is.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Mnmalst@kbin.social 49 points 1 year ago (2 children)

@TheYang Exactly! Came here to say this. Everybody actively using chromium based browsers is a part of the problem.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 9 points 1 year ago

Or even if Microsoft edge disables this

[–] Engywuck@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Stop with this excuse and stop Insulting people. I've been on Firefox for nearly 20 years, but Mozilla has ruined it for me little by little. The last straw has been the horrible UI redesign. So I switched to a Chromium browser. Tell Mozilla to make a better browser and to listen to their community, instead of blaming people for using what serves them best.

[–] steakmeout@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago

What does your UI gripe have to do with this biased tabloid piece you shared?

Firefox is fine and works even better than it ever has. If you cared about the UI so much you'd have tried any of its forks that use different and older designs.