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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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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?
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.
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.
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Ok, but you can see how perhaps other people might care, right? Like you’re not a complete psychopath, right?
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I like your tude dude!
Everyone is whining while still holding on to big corps balls.
Then next year
Attitudes like that are a big factor in our current culture war.
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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.
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.
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Mozilla has been bullied exactly this way in the past into implementing DRM measures I believe.
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.
I don’t understand why others like Brave, Opera, Vivaldi…etc are silent on this big of a threat.
Vivaldi has a post on their blog regarding this.
Glad to see them joining the protest. I hope this doesn’t get implemented.
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https://lemmy.today/post/158549
It hasn’t even been a week. They’re responding
You just listed a bunch of Chromium browsers. They don’t care.