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Google is working on essentially putting DRM on the web (github.com)

submitted 1 year ago by jherazob@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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The much maligned "Trusted Computing" idea requires that the party you are supposed to trust deserves to be trusted, and Google is DEFINITELY NOT worthy of being trusted, this is a naked power grab to destroy the open web for Google's ad profits no matter the consequences, this would put heavy surveillance in Google's hands, this would eliminate ad-blocking, this would break any and all accessibility features, this would obliterate any competing platform, this is very much opposed to what the web is.

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[–] abhibeckert@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

the reason Google keeps the money flowing to Mozilla is for Chrome to have a real competitor, Firefox to date is the only popular web browser with different engine and all that

Did you forget Safari? It has orders of magnitude more users than Firefox and it doesn't use the same rendering engine as Chrome.

[–] gaw@lemmy.cafe 2 points 1 year ago

It's still Webkit, no?

[–] EarthlingHazard@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Safari is only available on Apple platforms though so if Mozilla goes away the option will either be to switch to chromium or buy an iPhone/Mac