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

submitted 11 months 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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[-] buckykat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 11 months ago

For now. They're boiling the frog slow.

[-] beefcat@beehaw.org 23 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Microsoft doesn't control the standard, and the entire rest of the industry has no reason to ban non-Windows operating systems.

Widnows doesn't have the stranglehold over the market that it once did.

[-] buckykat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 11 months ago

It's not just Microsoft, it's capitalists in general.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 11 months ago

I hope you're right. Microsoft could try incentivising a shift.

[-] Scrath@feddit.de 3 points 11 months ago

The entire internet depends on machines running linux as servers. I highly doubt that any company has the power to change that

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yeah, it's not likely for server racks. Laptops, though, seem somewhat plausible. I'm actually pretty happy with the momentum on tech issues now, on the other hand. I hear stories about right to repair in normal media, my country is in a straight-up showdown with big tech, and GDPR is well established.