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Google's Web DRM is Worse than I Thought... (spectra.video)

submitted 1 year ago by hellfire103@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Thought I'd post the PeerTube version.

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[-] backgroundcow@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago

So, what you are saying is that by checking this trust API, we can filter out everyone running unaltered big-media approved browsers and hardware? We'd end up splitting the web into two disjoint parts, one for big corporate and sheeple - and one more akin to the web of old comprised by skilled tech people and hobbyists? A rift that could finally bring an end to eternal September? ... Are we sure this proposal a bad thing?

[-] 520@kbin.social 49 points 1 year ago

Yes. It's very bad. Your idea assumes that the corporate side would leave the hobbyist side alone and not go on the offensive in underhanded ways. It is very much in the big tech playbook to go on the offensive in underhanded ways.

[-] arefx@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Also the corporate side would be a toxic hellscape worse than it already is

[-] 520@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

Not to mention, the corporations know that their startup competitors capable of blindsiding them come from the hobbyist levels. The threat of competition comes from that side.

[-] LUHG_HANI@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Ohh this sounds amazing. Let them go all corporate on Edge and Chrome. It'll be fine for corporate IT and even better for IT and the world. I want my open web back, it's been a nosedive to mega corps for far too long.

[-] kemsat@lemmy.villa-straylight.social 7 points 1 year ago

Yes it’s a bad thing.

[-] Ultra980@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Like ploum wrote ("splitting the web" on https://ploum.net)

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