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Google's web DRM?
madires:
Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/googles-web-integrity-api-sounds-like-drm-for-the-web/
ConKbot:
Please use your digitally signed browser install, with locked down extensions, with you real name windows account, tied to the tpm module on your system to ensure the OS hadn't been modified in unauthorized ways.
Trust us bro, it's for your own security.
MrMobodies:
No no no no! It is a freaking web browser.
Sounding like a joke to me that they want firmware control of the device.
I remember Microsoft trying something like this with Edge and this integration thing I turned off some years ago when it was bringing up suggestions of file usage in history. With that disabled it seemed brilliant at first until the next update they introduced animated skeleton placeholders on the menu causing a 4 second delay in like history and favourites.
The only time I might consider something like this is with a bank on a separate device used only for that where liability is involved but with the tpm module, demanding email and device/profile account name, windows account etc and I wouldn't want that either with the intrusion I find goes so deep.
Every time I do a search I start with DuckDuckGo, then Google.
I hope one day it catches up.
--- Quote ---Issue #134 calls the idea "absolutely unethical and against the open web.
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I am not going to an don't want to, create an account, fill in and do a whole load of things, sign in, download an app, sign into that and have constraints and restrictions imposed on my device depending on how they feel.
SiliconWizard:
You will own nothing. ::)
MrMobodies:
I have seen a video of Louise Rossman talking about this about visitors trust and so on.
https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/google's-trying-to-drm-the-internet,-and:0
https://www.techradar.com/pro/googles-new-plan-for-the-future-of-the-web-has-a-lot-of-people-worried-heres-why
--- Quote --- introduces the idea that a website could be able to “request a token that attests key facts about the environment their client code is running in” in order to ascertain trust over the visitor and their browser session, and thus grant access.
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That is the moment I stop trusting them by denying me access to content by blatant discrimination in order to see it.
The information is out there but we don't like your browser or your device or not using it in a certain way etc so we will hide it from you until a set of demands are met to see it.
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