This is just more of the same. Every time some company thinks they've thrown enough money at the problem to DRM their way to success, somebody inevitably finds a fix, workaround, or bypass. Sometimes within a single day.

[–] nonearther@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The main issue is that no-one in past, be it movie, music, or gaming industry, had the control which Google has with the web.

Web is 90% Chromium, Email is 60+% Gmail, Android is 70+% mobile worldwide, and Google already provides a lot of things like Google login, oAuth, etc. for free.

This means for a web dev, making a website WEI compatible shouldn't be much of a hassle, and if they protest, Google can totally twist their arms to get us way.

WEI is dangerous because who's behind it, not because what it is.

[–] Rambi@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Not to mention AdSense and YouTube with whatever percentages they control of their respective markets.