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joe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

I mean, the same thing that is happening right now, right? The point would be that websites would not be built to only allow trusted clients-- it would still have to allow all clients. If they wanted to remove this 10% thing, it’s not like the entire web would instantly stop being built to allow untrusted clients.

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opt9@feddit.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
the 10% sounds like bait. Once they’ve got everyone on board and things are running smoothly (for them), it will be muuuch harder to resist.

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- joe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I’m not sure this is true (keep in mind: weak grasp). This 10% would push websites from specifically blocking untrusted clients-- but if they got rid of the 5%, it would not magically change all the websites to block untrusted clients. They’d still need to update to do this.
  
  I don’t want to come off like I’m defending this though-- I really just don’t know enough to say.
  
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  - MaggiWuerze@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    The vast majority of them would not change the default, and a simple mandatory update would change that to 0% without them having to do anything.
    
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