Comment on If Google succeeds with the new DRM policy, will that affect functionality of browsers like firefox which uses a different engine?

• empireOfLove@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Welcome to late stage capitalism. The free Fed money train is over, time to squeeze the plebians to death.

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• opt9@feddit.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Not the Internet, that is neutral. It is only one large corp that is trying to control the Internet. If everyone boycotts them, then they will fail.

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  • gothicdecadence@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Nah not just one company. Reddit, Twitter, basically every social media, streaming services, every site adding stupid ads and auto playing videos, etc. It all adds up

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    • opt9@feddit.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Fully agree, I was just trying to keep it relevant to Google. All that shit needs to be dropped. As people realize that rather than free, all that shit is really expensive, maybe they’ll make a move.

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  • kava@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The vast majority of internet traffic these days goes through a few different portals. Pretty much the few biggest sites. Google/YouTube, Facebook/Instagram/Whatsapp, Tiktok, Reddit, Twitter(“x”)

    Most people connect through these through some type of application on a mobile device. Most of these users couldn’t tell you what DRM was or what web standards are. They don’t care, they just wanna look at funny videos and get updates through clickbait headlines.

    These people aren’t going to boycott anything. The same thing that reddit is in the process of doing - killing off the old users and considering their power over the average apathetic user - Google is essentially going to try and do.

    It’s a scary time. The internet we all grew up with it irreversibly changing.

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    • opt9@feddit.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The asleep will continue to feed those big corps with their blood. The rest of us will move to other solutions. That is life.

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  • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Where did you get this idea that the internet is neutral?

    en.wikipedia.org/…/Net_neutrality_in_the_United_S…

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    • opt9@feddit.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Neutral like electricity. It is a force that can be used for good or bad. Google is trying to harness that energy for its own profit and control. I wasn’t referring to the structures created to administer it. That is another can of worms.

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