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.
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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.
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IT guy here. Most people do not, in fact, have an ad blocker installed.
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Maybe they care, maybe they don’t, but they definitely value convince over privacy.
Which is strange because I find the internet without an ad blocker to be extremely inconvenient
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You’d be surprised at how many “easy” things someone will avoid because they’re a “not computer person” and think clicking the wrong button will launch a fucking nuke.
To be fair, a lot of my customers are clueless boomers.
Sadly most people don’t have an ad blocker installed. Per this site <50% use ad blockers. Most users are using mobile devices, and the majority of those don’t have any ad blockers available in their default browsers/webViews. They won’t notice.
People didn’t have access to non-drm versions of those for 20 years first though. If we started with drm web then I’d be less optimistic, but people are going to notice when their sites don’t work.