Then don’t use Google. I’m slowly but surely working towards degoogling myself. Not there quite yet, but I’m working on it.
^ Free anonymous email, for the B/S that asks for an email when they got no business with one.
Sure, they’re against it, but if it gets implemented by Chrome and by many major websites, they won’t have a choice but to implement it as well. Otherwise, their browser just won’t work and people will have to use Chromium browsers or nothing at all.
over_clox@lemmy.world 11 months ago
scutiger@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The whole point is that non-Chromium browsers might lose functionality on a significant portion of major websites. Imagine if Amazon, Netflix, and Youtube suddenly stopped working in Firefox. How many Firefox users would tolerate that?
StalksEveryone@lemmy.villa-straylight.social 11 months ago
You are not limited to using one browser at a time. Use firefox as much as you please. You can use google if you must.
MaggiWuerze@feddit.de 11 months ago
Sure, because the average user won’t think his Firefox to be broken and just switch to chrome altogether. Chrome has no issue with that site after all. Once enough pages have it even most technically inclined people will probably not want to constantly juggle between browsers, just to use their banking site or whatever.
over_clox@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I don’t use Amazon or Netflix in the first place. Plus the FTC is going after Amazon anyways…
Act like I care…
scutiger@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Ok, but you can see how perhaps other people might care, right? Like you’re not a complete psychopath, right?
Rouxibeau@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I don’t care about x thing, it doesn’t affect me
Then next year
Why are they killing “y thing that affects me”
Attitudes like that are a big factor in our current culture war.
grue@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Your recommendation isn’t wrong, but it’s a mistake to think problems like this can be solved with a mere boycott. This absolutely requires consumer protection legislation.
Sloogs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Mozilla has been bullied exactly this way in the past into implementing DRM measures I believe.
Maiznieks@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I already use ff and if there’s a site that requires drm to work, i don’t care for that site. They need visitors not the other way around.
empireOfLove@lemmy.one 11 months ago
Honestly, they could have good grounds for an antitrust lawsuit if this API comes to pass and everyone uses Google attestation servers. It’s gardenwalling the browser space just like Microsoft was.
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 11 months ago
And what was the last successful antitrust suit? It wasn’t Microsoft. They just dragged out the trial until they had a favorable administration settle with them.