cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/2546109
Read why “Web Environment Integrity” is terrible, and why we must vocally oppose it now. Google’s latest maneuver, if we don’t act to stop it, threatens our freedom to explore the Internet with browsers of our choice.
Everyone who uses Chrome (or Brave, Vivaldi, Arc, or anything else that uses Chromium as a base) - you’re helping google extend their power over the open web, and those helping them do this.
It’s a small thing, but Google’s power over the web derives from each of the the millions of people who continue to make Chrome the standard that webdevs cater to.
Just switched to Firefox today!
Also do not forget Electron, which has chromium bundled on THEM!
Yeah, also maybe we could get rid of election apps.
I don’t think it’s fair to place the blame on the user. It’s not their fault for using a browser they like. Blame those whodient prevent or try to breakup google owning the browser. The damage is done an most of chromium’s base won’t know shit about this or why.
But do they like Chrome, or do they just use it out of habit, and because it’s the default on Android phones and constantly marketed on Google’s search engine? Perhaps they use it because it’s the “good enough” solution that’s dropped right in front of them?
If this comment makes you think desktop/laptop, this news made me switch to FF on my android phone as well, and I have seen no downsides!
Google isn’t going to regulate itself. We need our elected officials to enshrine laws that stop this. The EU will likely be the ones pissed off by this.
Every day this week I’ve thought, ‘Thank goodness for the EU.’ They just keep stepping up against the tech companies.
More and more people in the industry saying that Google is trying to implement it under false pretenses of making the web safer for the end user. But I guess for most it was obvious?
Almost all attempts at taking freedom away are done under the guise of increased safety.
What can we realistically do, shouldn’t we be making more noise on the wider internet about this? I already use Firefox, and am barely using any service from Google, doesn’t seem enough.
I can only hope that major players will somehow shame Google out of this obvious enshittification effort. That’s probably naïve.
I think realistically, even if we did raise enough of an uproar, and the major players did actually pay attention enough to get Google to back down, they’d just wait 6 months and implement it anyway with a different name, or keep grinding away until people are too tired and distracted to fight it anymore. That seems to be the general playbook for stuff like this.
So I assume it will be implemented, and those who don’t care will just put up with it, and those who do care about it will either figure out how to break it or just learn to live without certain things online I guess.
“Listen, and understand. That Google is out there. It can’t be bargained with. It can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until the open web is dead.”
STOP USING GOOGLE
Sounds like the Trusted Computing shit that was pushed onto processors, and can make running Linux more difficult.
Chrome has really become the new IE
Yep, some Microsoft employees think so too. Curiously, it appears that the article was deleted by the author. I wonder if they self-censored themselves or asked to remove it, perhaps by their employer.
I feel like the future of technology is just a constant war between hackers and pirates vs big tech, no one will really ever win, just a constant struggle (unless new laws are passed). Just like how games and video streaming have DRMs, but people still are able to circumvent them given enough time.
goodbye adblock goodbye anything not chromium based goodbye fun
Google about to do to www what they did to xmpp
