This video as a text article: https://blog.nicco.love/google-drms-the-web/

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Don’t be evil.

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Don’t be evil.

FTFY

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Mine was a joke about that being their former corporate motto. Yours works just as well though :)

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Ah, that makes sense.

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We had the dominance of Microsoft with IE back in the day. They made sure that the web was being kept back. Google is doing the same now, even though people have been shouting that they’d never do that. Here we are…

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can this “fix” NFTs?

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Sadly the only real move the average person has to play in all of this is if they do this, refuse to use any site that blocks access or extensions based on it.

Go back to paying your property tax with checks, etc if you have to. But the only way to deal with these companies is being willing to go to whatever lengths are required to avoid using their products and services.

Which is of course way easier to say than do.

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Abandon Chrome and Chromium en masse and this will go away. But normies suck.

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Just don’t use the services that do this

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Most people won’t even notice this exists because they use Chrome without extensions (and you can’t even install extension in Android’s Chrome).

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don’t use the services that do this

Yes!

Just

I wish.

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Once entities like tax authorities require it for filing your taxes (or any other thing you absolutely have to do), that’s not really an option any more.

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The tax authority in my country already uses a proprietary protocol and client

https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elster_(Software)

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It’s funny that they name that protocol after a bird that’s associated with theft.

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Unfortunately not a feasible solution. If the vast majority of websites support this, any sort of OSS solution is dead to the average user.

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