cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/6738148
The much maligned “Trusted Computing” idea requires that the party you are supposed to trust deserves to be trusted, and Google is DEFINITELY NOT worthy of being trusted, this is a naked power grab to destroy the open web for Google’s ad profits no matter the consequences, this would put heavy surveillance in Google’s hands, this would eliminate ad-blocking, this would break any and all accessibility features, this would obliterate any competing platform, this is very much opposed to what the web is.
This won’t last long. Sites that implement this will notice their user count and clicks plummet almost instantly.
Yeah, DRM has always scared away all the users. That’s why nobody adopted DVDs, that “Netflix” company failed to create a video streaming service, Steam never became a dominant game distributor, etc.
Most people won’t notice or care. Most companies’ customers will buy what’s advertized to them. It’s very dangerous to assume consumers want freedom, we need to fight for it, not ignore the threat due to naïve idealism.
I’d like to think most people at least have an adblocker installed. They should then notice that it’s not working on a website.
If a site has a pop up saying I need to disable my adblocker to view the site I don’t bother and go elsewhere.
I once worked at a software company where it took the frontend guys like a month to finally notice that common adblockers broke one of their sites (which didn’t actually have ads on it, funnily enough). None of them noticed because none of them used adblockers on any of their machines. When people like that don’t run adblockers, it’s not realistic at all to expect the average user to do it.
As a full stack guy that has done his fair share of front end work, I use an adblocker on the devices that I use in my personal realm. I don’t have them in my development area because most people don’t use them. I want what I test on to be as stock as possible. I’ve observed that most people go with what “comes out of the box.” That said, I get to look at my efforts on my personal devices. If something is off, I’ll see it. If I had to code to every popular extension, it would be hard to get anything done.
What’s that, Google? You say you want me to switch to DuckDuckGo and Firefox? And you’re insistent that I do it? Okay, sure.
duckduckgo actually has been pressured as lf late and no longer shows a true search
yandex is the new duckduckgo
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look up watch X movie online on DDG and yandex
you will see the difference
DDG now does not show illegal websites
Yandex is a good [search engine]to check for censorship that our elites do upon us… I think google works the same for Russians haha
What a clown world.
This will be great, just filter me out from all ad content. I will not even need ad blocker.
Your doctor, tax office and other public services or your employer or job seeking webite says hi.
Very few of us can truly live without the internet.
