• Domriso
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    421 year ago

    Hm, can we make an anti-WEI movement? Have a bunch of websites block browsers using WEI, to force it away?

    I know that won’t actually work, but a man can dream…

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      Donate to orgs like the EFF, Mozilla, and the FSF. Lobby your congressperson, your senators, and Biden to make the FTC to start doing its goddamn job again and enforce antitrust law.

      The only real solution to this creeping megalomaniacal monopolistic behavior is legislative.

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        51 year ago

        The real hope is the EU doing the right thing again and curb stomping the fuck out of google and hopefully the results spread across the world.

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        71 year ago

        I mean, yeah, that’s why I said it wouldn’t work. Maybe if there was a website that was big enough that it would drive people to use non-WEI browsers if they couldn’t access it, but any website big enough to do that would also want WEI for ad venue.

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          The only big website that could even come close to doing this (they won’t, and if they did it wouldn’t work, but they’re big enough that the attempt would at least be noticed) is Wikipedia.

          A slightly more “productive” (sort of) avenue of approach would be another large corporation for whom Google is a competitor, and who themselves doesn’t rely (as much) on advertising, interfering with WEI for their own self-interested reasons. Apple is the most likely candidate here, although again, I don’t think that’s likely to happen.