Technology @beehaw.org wolf @lemmy.zip 1y ago

Google pushing web DRM into chromium

github.com [wei] Ensure Origin Trial enables full feature · chromium/chromium@6f47a22

This CL moves the base::Feature from content_features.h to a generated feature from runtime_enabled_features.json5. This means that the base::Feature can be default-enabled while the web API is co...

Found on hacker news.

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Here it is. Another nail in the open web coffin.
- Or it will help develop a new open web that doesn't include these sort of things.
  
  I have been using Firefox since forever so this sort of stuff doesn't bother me.
  
  I'm happy to avoid websites that require it.
  
  Will you be happy when your doctor/bank/government's website requires it? When health or law obligates you to comply?
  
  This is much, much darker than just some replaceable entertainment sites being off-limits.
  
  I am using Firefox too. However I also consume lots and lots of general purpose websites which in time probably become not consumable if you are not compliant. Which in turn either render FF not usable, or adopt the unfortunate standards.
More discussion here: https://tildes.net/~comp/18h8/web_environment_integrity_a_google_proposal_for_general_web_drm

This shit keeps radicalizing me about the internet more and more. Ughh.
I feel dirty upvoting this. It needs to be known as such but I don't want to show 'support' for it.
- You can feel better by seeing the upvoting system as a tool to raise visibility rather than a tool to show agreement with its content.
- I felt this way for a while on the website that is a reverse of "tidder."
  
  But then I realized engagement is visibility, visibility is awareness, and awareness drives change. Best we can do is upvote and add to the dissenting thoughts in the comments.
The fact that Google is willing to push such an obviously self destructive move suggests they’re getting really desperate.
yay! I can't wait to have a virtual machine with windows and chrome just to get an appointment for public services. It will be nice when other OS and browsers will be only usefull to post memes. I do miss the days when I needed IE, because my shithole country made a lot of public stuff only compatible with that.

/s
💩 -gle making piles people can step in

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