• @scutiger
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    341 year ago

    Sure, they’re against it, but if it gets implemented by Chrome and by many major websites, they won’t have a choice but to implement it as well. Otherwise, their browser just won’t work and people will have to use Chromium browsers or nothing at all.

    • @[email protected]
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      471 year ago

      Honestly, they could have good grounds for an antitrust lawsuit if this API comes to pass and everyone uses Google attestation servers. It’s gardenwalling the browser space just like Microsoft was.

      • @Ensign_Crab
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        161 year ago

        Honestly, they could have good grounds for an antitrust lawsuit

        And what was the last successful antitrust suit? It wasn’t Microsoft. They just dragged out the trial until they had a favorable administration settle with them.

      • @agitatedpotato
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        81 year ago

        That would be a great anti trust suit if the US actually enforced anti trust laws, but they don’t. If you’re not already a dominant semi-monopoly, you can buy and do whatever honestly.

    • @over_clox
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      131 year ago

      Then don’t use Google. I’m slowly but surely working towards degoogling myself. Not there quite yet, but I’m working on it.

      https://dispostable.com

      ^ Free anonymous email, for the B/S that asks for an email when they got no business with one.

      • @scutiger
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        231 year ago

        The whole point is that non-Chromium browsers might lose functionality on a significant portion of major websites. Imagine if Amazon, Netflix, and Youtube suddenly stopped working in Firefox. How many Firefox users would tolerate that?

        • StalksEveryone
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          -11 year ago

          You are not limited to using one browser at a time. Use firefox as much as you please. You can use google if you must.

          • MaggiWuerze
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            01 year ago

            Sure, because the average user won’t think his Firefox to be broken and just switch to chrome altogether. Chrome has no issue with that site after all. Once enough pages have it even most technically inclined people will probably not want to constantly juggle between browsers, just to use their banking site or whatever.

          • @scutiger
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            201 year ago

            Ok, but you can see how perhaps other people might care, right? Like you’re not a complete psychopath, right?

            • @over_clox
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              -101 year ago

              Not my problem you people fell into the corporate trap. I saw it coming as far back as 2011.

          • Rouxibeau
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            151 year ago

            I don’t care about x thing, it doesn’t affect me

            Then next year

            Why are they killing “y thing that affects me”

            Attitudes like that are a big factor in our current culture war.

            • @over_clox
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              -31 year ago

              I’m using actual solid services established in the late 90’s that still work today. I have terabytes of data stored, and it’s not through Google or iCloud.

              Don’t care, I already predicted half of this crap over a decade ago. Nobody wants to listen to me though.

              Oh well, not my problem.

      • @grue
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        81 year ago

        Your recommendation isn’t wrong, but it’s a mistake to think problems like this can be solved with a mere boycott. This absolutely requires consumer protection legislation.

      • stravanasu
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        41 year ago

        Funny, note that that website uses DRM content. I have DRM disabled on Firefox and when I visit that site I get two DRM warnings.

        • @over_clox
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          31 year ago

          I noticed that too after I posted that comment. Must be a recent change. ☹️

    • @[email protected]
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      51 year ago

      Mozilla has been bullied exactly this way in the past into implementing DRM measures I believe.

    • Maiznieks
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      41 year ago

      I already use ff and if there’s a site that requires drm to work, i don’t care for that site. They need visitors not the other way around.