Once upon a time, Google’s official policy was “don’t be evil.” With the rapid progress they’ve made on Web Environment Integrity in such a short time, we can say very safely that their policy is now to pioneer evil.
Well said
I don’t want to live on this planet anymore.
A nice, optimistic song on the same topic:
The DRM is one of the most hostile proposals to people with disabilities that I have seen in a long while and should have been buried from first showerthought… but holy shit people, there are death threats on the linked github PR. Just no, that is not going to help anyone.
And what can we do about it to prevent it?
Refuse to use sites/applications that implement it. Embrace the hardship this may create as worth the price.
Unless you also convince the rest of the world to do the same, it’s not gonna work.
It’s gonna be like with mobile apps, where sure you can root your phone, or use a degoogled android rom, but then your bank will refuse to let you use their app (right now one can still use their website, but if this passes…), and a bunch of other things won’t work by design.
Me boycotting my bank’s app, or other root-averse apps, or non-google-android-rom averse apps, never stopped them from continuing to do what they do.
