Comment on Google's trying to DRM the internet, and we have to make sure they fail

peregus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• CatZoomies@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  A quick, non-technical explanation:

  • Google is working toward implementing a new protocol in Google Chrome, “Manifest v3”, that will be intrusive and help enforce Digital Rights Management.
  • Under the guise of this being safe, secure, and to curb bots, Mv3 will require users to become Trusted by using the Chrome browser.
  • Since the majority of users are using Google Chrome, this will heavily influence corporations to adopt this protocol in their service.
  • A Trusted user can access Netflix in the browser. If you’re using Firefox or are an untrusted user, you will not be able to access Netflix in your browser.
  • This protocol will appear one day in some form, and it will greatly shift the internet and force more users into Google’s ecosystem.
  • This will spread to all areas of the internet - Banking web sites, government web sites, healthcare, entertainment, education, etc.
  • The internet will become less “free” over time. More censorship, less rights.

  See my other comments in this Post for more details.

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  • peregus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    WTF?!!! Monopoly is always a bad thing, we must remember it!

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    • CatZoomies@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Absolutely. But there’s the catch - if Google passes this (and they will, because they don’t like ad blockers since it hurts their revenue), others will implement it.

      Other Chromium browsers will be forced to adopt Mv3 too. If they don’t adopt it, the users that continue to use those browsers will find that certain web sites or services won’t work. “Why can’t Opera/Brave load my stupid bank? This is so stupid. I just want to check my balance. Whoa! It works in Chrome! That’s awesome! Why are these idiots at Brave even developers if they can’t fix the simplest shit? They should learn from Google.”

      And thus, Google Chrome isn’t necessarily “a monopoly”, because other Chromium browsers will adopt it if they want to stay in business. Opera belongs to China, Brave feeds their advertisements and has Basic Attention Token (BAT) cryptocurrency, Microsoft Edge is everything Google is but with a heaping pile of Microsoft privacy invasions. They’ll adopt it, they don’t have a choice.

      Other Chromium browsers like Ungoogled Chromium, which is made by voluntary developers in their free time, will not adopt it. But because they’re unpaid, how long can they fight Mv3? Eventually, Ungoogled Chromium will disappear.

      Firefox and its forks (Librewolf, Waterfox, etc.) are safe for now. In 10 years when Web sites don’t work, if they don’t adopt Mv3, they too will disappear. Firefox is a corporation that has salaries and a bottom line - they’ll have no choice but to comply or they will perish.

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      • reddithalation@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I don’t know anything else, but I have been using firefox for a while, and I can’t think of any times where a website didn’t work. Seems like a almost perfect drop in replacement for chromium currently, just needs people to do it.

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