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mastermind ( mastermind@lemm.ee )  to Privacy@lemmy.ml · 3 years ago

Google is already pushing WEI(DRM Webpage) into Chromium

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Google is already pushing WEI(DRM Webpage) into Chromium

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mastermind ( mastermind@lemm.ee )  to Privacy@lemmy.ml · 3 years ago
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[wei] Ensure Origin Trial enables full feature · chromium/chromium@6f47a22
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This CL moves the base::Feature from content_features.h to a generated feature from runtime_enabled_features.json5. This means that the base::Feature can be default-enabled while the web API is co...
  • Gibberish9031 ( Gibberish9031@lemmy.ml ) 
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    Time to De-Google I guess. I will keep using Firefox and if or when I come across any website pulling this crap I won’t hesitate to blast them to eternity. I suggest everyone else do the same please.

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      Time was a decade ago… But better now than never.

    • worfamerryman ( worfamerryman@beehaw.org ) 
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      I’m just going to stop using sites that implement this tech. Maybe I’ll even make a site and actually contribute to the web with all the free time I’ll have 😇

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        It’ll be next to impossible when those websites are your bank and Netflix etc.

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          Not using Netflix is very possible :) Even easier with the pricing they are up to lately.

          (But I know you were just listing some examples)

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            True, but things like banking and e-commerce are another very large part of the things people do on the Internet, and those are more likely to follow along than not.

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            not sure if you’re talking about sailing there, but my point against Netflix would be that there are definitely more things to do in life than sitting through hours of passive low effort entertainment. it’s very obvious but I guess people are slowly forgetting about that

            even gaming is better. at least you’re exercising your brain and motor skills

            the banking thing is something else though. but it’s the kind of thing that’s probably done for security anyway, so it’s not that bad and things like that definitely wouldn’t be profitable enough for all this effort Google and others are putting into it 😅

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            yarrrrrrr

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          I figured that banks would use it so I have a browser for them and there are alternatives to Netflix that don’t have any drm.

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            Yarrr 🏴‍☠️

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          I’m out of the loop on this one and I’m probably the minority here but big banks would probably incorporate this whole WEI thing but wouldn’t smaller institutions like credit unions opt out? I apologize for my ignorance, I haven’t looked into this at all. This is the first time I’m hearing about WEI and I’m trying to garner some sort of and idea of what it is via comments rather than reading an article about it like a regular human being.

          • Gibberish9031 ( Gibberish9031@lemmy.ml ) 
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            Honestly I am in the same boat, but big banks still make a large portion of the banking system and I don’t why the smaller banks wouldn’t just follow along.

          • argv_minus_one ( argv_minus_one@beehaw.org ) Banned
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            Government regulators will most likely force all financial and medical institutions to block all unattested browsers, for “security”.

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