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Thought I'd post the PeerTube version.

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[–] Goodie@lemmy.world 51 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] trachemys@lemmy.world 26 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The website you want won’t let you in with firefox. Only chrome on windows with secure boot enabled and no untrusted drivers or dev mode and https-dns to avoid your pihole.

[–] Xbeam@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Then I don't want that website.

[–] big_slap@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

it's great you have that mentality, but the majority of people will just give in and use chrome

[–] backgroundcow@lemmy.world 34 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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 2 years ago (1 children)

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 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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

[–] 520@kbin.social 10 points 2 years 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 2 years 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.

Yes it’s a bad thing.

[–] Ultra980@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

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

It is hella bad!

[–] n3cr0@lemmy.world -4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I switched from chromium to vivaldi after Google announced their WEI.

[–] Im28xwa@lemdro.id 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] n3cr0@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Because that's always been my primary browser. But I like to use different profiles for each web service I registered at. Switching profiles on Firefox takes some extra steps, so I used Chromium and now Vivaldi.

[–] Im28xwa@lemdro.id 2 points 2 years ago

Understandable, have a good day!