Comment on A peaceful protest againt Web Environment Integrity

porkins@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• raltoid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  With the TL;DR being: Google wants to more easily block non-chrome browsers to their services.

  Which also means that many people using accessability tools will be unable to access them. And they are trying to get Firefox to implement it as well, so they don’t take all the blame when shit hits the fan and they start getting multi-billion dollar monopoly fines from the EU.

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  • mrmanager@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s ad blocking and entire operating systems, or computers configured in any way they don’t like.

    If this goes through, they can force you to install any plugins they wish, or disable any plugins they wish. Or make sure you don’t run Linux and only Windows or Mac.

    No innovation will take place. Competing browsers or software will not be allowed or manipulated into marketed as “unsafe”.

    This is a takeover of the web as we know it.

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    • ZILtoid1991@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They also could use it to slowly push ChromeOS-only features and services. Don't forget they have their own "OS"!

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• Libertus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Also Louis Rossmann published a video about it: https://youtube.com/watch?v=0i0Ho-x7s_U

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