Google is prototyping a DRM system for websites in Chromium - eviltoast
Don't. · Issue #28 · RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity
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Sometimes you have to ask the question whether something should be done at all, and trusted computing is certainly one of those cases where the answer is obviously a big fat NO. So please reconside...

the API is called Web Environment Integrity, and it’s a way to kill ad blockers first and a Google ecosystem lock-in mechanism second, with no other practical use case I can find

  • Steve@awful.systemsEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Google meet is the only product on the web I’ve seen in the last 5 years that still says “these features don’t work in your browser”

    • Steve@awful.systemsEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Gecko and WebKit are open-source. If google cared about the web they’d contribute to the other engines as well.

      • self@awful.systemsOPEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I see you have also been forced to use google tech and consume google’s awful developer docs and deal with their laughable UIs (how does anyone use google analytics for any purpose?) because the only thing corporations are comfortable with is garbage as far as the eye can see