Nice imagination.
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Sheeple@lemmy.world 8 months ago
YouTube is going to lose this battle lol.
Both from a legal standpoint and the fact that adblockers WILL adapt
Alby003@lemmings.world 8 months ago
lowleveldata@programming.dev 8 months ago
Even with Google money?
yukichigai@kbin.social 8 months ago
Not even Microsoft in its monolith days was able to spend enough money to stop a legion of angry nerds with a severe case of "fuck you, you can't tell me what to do".
echo64@lemmy.world 8 months ago
So, they’ve already won. They just haven’t turned on the nuclear option yet.
They recently added what amounts to drm for the entire Internet to chrome, it is a way for them to disallow access to YouTube and other services via anything but an approved browser. This would include approved extensions.
So I’ll use something that isn’t chrome? Well, they will just block Firefox from YouTube. Making chrome and chrome derivatives via its Internet drm the only option.
query@lemmy.world 8 months ago
A monopoly trying to lock in browsers isn’t going to last in the EU.
echo64@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Ehh maybe, widevine exists for drm already. They will just claim its an extension of that.
MasterBuilder@lemmy.one 8 months ago
Anti-trust lawsuit in 3… 2…
haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 8 months ago
I hope they get annihilated by that lawsuit.
MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 8 months ago
This will be legally chalkrnged later, if it is not opt-in.
echo64@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Eh, probably. But it’s for fighting those darned internet pirates, and the only body that seems to protect us anymore, the eu, seems to be all for that. So I’m.not expecting anything good
maynarkh@feddit.nl 8 months ago
What makes you think the EU is for internet monopolies after the DMA?
hiddengoat@kbin.social 8 months ago
The moment they try to do that is the moment that Google gets broken up.
I hope they try, because they WILL get assfucked into submission.
einfach_orangensaft@feddit.de 8 months ago
Nope i doubt that. Google is ‘to big to fail’ its a fundamental pillar of american force projection in the cyberspace.
Vendul@feddit.de 8 months ago
I don‘t even worry. Some clever dudes will find a way to spoof Chrome with a Firefox extension
echo64@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s a drm system, so we’re talking end to end encryption from server to display, but for evil. It’s not a spoof thing
AphoticDev@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Even in the US, a corporate monopoly trying to force people to use their browser will trigger an antitrust lawsuit from the government. Microsoft has already faced one for what they did with Edge, and they didn’t even do DRM.
Besides, it’s YouTube. If you can’t use it anymore, it’s not gonna be the end of the world.
Gabu@lemmy.world 8 months ago
If they want their services to instantly die, sure.
SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Ah, you forget that the general population is perfectly OK with inconveniences.
Fizz@lemmy.nz 8 months ago
Majority of people already use chrome
AphoticDev@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
People are acting as if losing YouTube and other Google services is the end of the world. It is not. You don’t need Google, even if you use Android.
yukichigai@kbin.social 8 months ago
That would be easy to challenge under the same reasoning as what's in the article, not to mention various anti-trust laws and ones covering anti-competitive business practices.
Doesn't mean it's guaranteed to stop them, but it's definitely not going to be as easy as them flipping a few switches and saying "watch ads on our browser with no addons or GTFO".
Sheeple@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Most importantly, such a move would kill YouTube as a platform. Removing other browsers from the picture would cut off a majority of their viewers
echo64@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Safari and chrome have the Web drm already. It’s really just Firefox that gets cut off.
Tygr@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I stopped using Chrome about 3 weeks ago. Used Edge for a while but finding out that is Chromium, I landed back on Firefox after 10 years of not using it. Just moved all my bookmarks and plugins.
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Fast track to getting people to stop using YouTube. No service or company is immune to this.
whale@lemm.ee 8 months ago
While I agree with you in theory, I’m not sure how it would go in practice. The percent of people not using Chrome or a Chrome clone is, at this point, in the single digits. And since they have de facto control over the internet, it’s pretty easy to force other browsers to do what they want.
Although, come to think of it, DRM didn’t really prevent people from ripping Netflix or Amazon content, or even streaming it on something like Discord.
Sheeple@lemmy.world 8 months ago