Google trashes its "DRM for the Web" API - gHacks Tech News
Google trashes its "DRM for the Web" API - gHacks Tech News
Google announced plans to end its plans for its Web Environment Integrity API, which concerned groups called DRM for the Web API.
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They are still going to pursue it, just under a different name and rolling-out timeline. What they changed is only the way they are announcing it publicly.
It's going to be "DRM for the Web, but with extra steps".
meanwhile apple already did it without even asking.
Lets call it what it is, googles attempt to create a situation in which they can ban all competition and establish a global monopoly.
I partially agree. They created a monopoly because they offer the best search engine service. You can't be accused of making a monopoly if your competition is embarrassingly bad and no one wants to use any service but yours.
What they are doing now, regardless of how they gained this monopoly, is ensuring that every cow that feeds on the grass of their field yields profitable milk.
Noone would care if they only had a monopoly in the search engine market. But they are also the biggest ad network, email provider and browser maker, and they also own the (effectively only) video platform.
But if you implement something in your browser that allows websites to block anything that isn't an accepted browser (and websites use it because they don't want their precious data to feed random AIs) you effectively prevent any potential competition from crawling websites to build a search index that might threaten your position.
This is what I meant, if everyone is running googles web integrity API it also effectively allows google to ban other browsers from even existing by denying them access to all major sites.