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[-] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 226 points 1 year ago

For the millionth time, Stallman was right.

[-] kevin@programming.dev 136 points 1 year ago

Yep, you send me html, my browser can interpret it any way that I want it to. If I want to ignore all of the image and script tags, I can. I don't need Chrome or even Chromium. As Stallman says, you should know what is running on your system.

[-] baldingpudenda@lemmy.world 59 points 1 year ago

We need to go back to html and css. Using an ad blocker and noscript literally breaks webpages. I just want to read the article! You know the content ppl actually come for

[-] tryptaminev@feddit.de 22 points 1 year ago

But how is all the bloat going to get to you then? HTML with some images is equally functional and loads in a fraction of the time, because it is actually efficient. Nobody could want that could they?

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[-] Zinggi57@lemmy.world 211 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think a lot of people here don't understand the danger of this fully and dismiss it with "Just use Firefox, problem solved".
Unfortunately, once this becomes widely available, that is once Chrome ships it, websites will start to use it.
Maybe Amazon will just not sell to you anymore when you're browsing with Firefox?
Maybe YouTube wont serve any videos if you're using Linux?
Your bank will certainly implement this and only allow Windows 11 with Edge or some shit like that.
Once this is implemented, we will all suffer, even if we're using better alternatives right now.

[-] Ushi@sh.itjust.works 111 points 1 year ago

Your bank will certainly implement this

My brother in Christ, it was 2020 before my bank supported passwords longer than 8 characters. We have 30 or 40 years before we need to worry about the banks.

[-] vaultdweler13@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago

Some banks are still running windows 98 internally, admitedly so long as said system isnt connected to the internet it should be fine.

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[-] jungekatz@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

I wonder if that would be a valid anti trust violition ?

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[-] nicman24@kbin.social 181 points 1 year ago

Stop using chrome. Yes brave is chrome

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[-] IntentionallyAnon@lemm.ee 123 points 1 year ago

DRM is stupid because it interferes with paying customers and isn’t effective. If there’s a will there’s a way

[-] AndreyAsimow@lemmy.world 49 points 1 year ago

I guess we have to get a subscription on top of our monthly internet bill to use the internet.

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[-] OtakuAltair@lemm.ee 122 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
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[-] fabio1@lemmy.world 89 points 1 year ago

Google in 2004: don’t be evil Google in 2023: turns into Dr. Evil

[-] Shurimal@kbin.social 34 points 1 year ago

Something-something die as a hero or become the villain.

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[-] Chatotorix@lemmy.world 81 points 1 year ago

Like, seriously, went through the last 10 years spending a good chunk of my day on Twitter and Reddit using Chrome, and suddenly I'm on Lemmy/Mastodon on Firefox.

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[-] artaxthehappyhorse@lemmy.ml 78 points 1 year ago

Ah yes, 2023. The year I wore a pirate hat and touched more grass. Soon they'll be bribing the govt to make going outside illegal.

[-] lunicoDee@feddit.it 29 points 1 year ago

Soon they'll be bribing the govt to make going outside illegal.

That was 2020

[-] jungekatz@lemmy.world 77 points 1 year ago

One more time if anyone says that capitalism breeds innovation we need to show them this ¡!

[-] BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works 53 points 1 year ago

restricted capitalism does that. regular capitalism makes monopoly.

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[-] bric@lemm.ee 32 points 1 year ago

This is innovation though, an internet wide DRM would be quite an impressive technical feat. It's just not innovation built to benefit you and me, it's built to benefit Google's true customers, advertisers

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[-] Andrew15_5@mander.xyz 77 points 1 year ago
[-] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 107 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No no, they changed their beer. I hear they added more hops to it.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

Changing a beer to an IPA is actually a pretty good analogy, according to this beer lover who doesn't like overly hoppy ones..

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[-] 001100010010@lemmy.dbzer0.com 61 points 1 year ago

"What's internet? It it like Googlenet but worse?"

-Some kid in the future

[-] Dekthro@lemm.ee 53 points 1 year ago

Plus the paid streaming services adding ads back in and they are all the SAME fucking ads?

🎶 Do what you want because a pirate is a free, you are a pirate! 🎶

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[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 49 points 1 year ago

Wait, Google's doing what now?

[-] tryptaminev@feddit.de 107 points 1 year ago

They want to implement a "feature" so websites only load for you, if your browser, OS and hardware are deemed "trustworthy" aka you load every ad and malware that the website wants to shove down your throat.

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 33 points 1 year ago

Oh God... I think I'm going to be sick. It's too easy to see how you could weaponize this against dissenters.

Don't like something about our product? Have fun being banned from the internet!

[-] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 33 points 1 year ago

Not even dissenters, just people in general. That's why they're likening it to DRM. Run something nonstandard on your system (ie Linux)? Get with the program. It's a continuation of "you don't own anything, use it how we want you to use it or don't use it at all."

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[-] chanchard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 45 points 1 year ago

Does anyone else think that maybe this may cause a shift back to times before internet

[-] RhetoricalOrator@lemmy.world 71 points 1 year ago

Honestly, reddits API change was an awful thing to do but my phone usage has plummeted since then. I've been trying Lemmy but it's not been an easy 1:1 replacement and I find myself not engaging or feeling so invested in conversations and content as much.

That works in my favor, though, because I really have been spending way too much time looking at screens anyway.

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[-] kek_w_lol@lemmy.one 45 points 1 year ago

We'll make out own internet! With blackjack and hookers!

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[-] AndreyAsimow@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago

Why watch the news when you can learn everything from memes

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[-] Admax@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago

Honestly this is just depressing. And a little scary ?

Corporate greed is taking new heights and the things we took for granted are being taken away. It is all so dystopic...

Yeet.

[-] kool_newt@lemm.ee 33 points 1 year ago

The rulers figured out the internet is too dangerous to their power. They thought they could control it and us, and they did for a long time, but it's not working anymore. Now they are cracking down on our ability to communicate, to prevent ideas from spreading and taking hold that they cannot tolerate.

[-] ImOnADiet@lemmygrad.ml 31 points 1 year ago

? They’re just following the end game of capitalism, they’re trying to squeeze every last bit of profit out of the internet that they can, it has nothing to do with the internet “threatening” power, they already took care of that with all of the spying laws they passed when the internet started getting popular

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[-] sirico@feddit.uk 32 points 1 year ago

Dyslexic's being attacked by that font

[-] HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

For those interested in actively opposing this - the following blog offers some advice on how to do so.

https://blog.yoav.ws/posts/web_platform_change_you_do_not_like/

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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm used to dealing with DRM, too. If it can be stripped out of a game or other software, it could be stripped out of the internet itself. Maybe some of the old cracking scenes that quit due to boredom will return for the challenge.

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[-] raidenfox@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 year ago

tbh I'm just tired of all of this, we can't have nice things, ever... Every fucking thing in this world is being swallowed by corporate greed. Every service there's a catch, and I'm getting mad with it, things aren't made to serve their purpose, they only exist to make money and more money for people who already have infinite money, it's frustrating. Things need to change or everything is going to collapse... fuck companies, fuck billionaires, fuck stocks, fuck all of this

[-] MrKristijan@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

Well, well, well, would you look at that? We've done full circle, haven't we? It's time to go back to the old internet again.

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