Chrome not proceeding with Web Integrity API deemed by many to be DRM
Back in July, Google's work on a Web Integrity API emerged and many equated it to DRM. The company announced today it's not proceeding...
*Google proceeding with authoritarian DRM API on Android. Will attempt to resurrect in Chromium core within the next few years.
Yeah they made people “used” to the idea. I’m sure the next proposal will be met with less backlash than this one.
Or maybe a third attempt will be required? Anyways the writing is on the wall.
I've been saying it for months now: note the language on the YouTube ad-blocker messages.
It's not "Please turn off ad blockers", it's "Ad-blockers are not allowed".
They're not asking, they're not being polite, they're not trying to coax you, or imply the site won't work if you leave the ad-blockers on.
They're drawing a line. They're telling you, from this point forward, they are the authority and they are declaring ad-blockers as verboten.
That language is extremely telling, and it signals a very troubling future for the web, because the rest of the internet is going to follow their lead on this. As soon as Google provides them the means to enforce this authority, they will.
Gonna wait for the outcry to settle before pushing it anyway.
As is tradition
Correct me if I'm wrong, since I'm a bit tired for parsing through the deliberately opaque wall of legalese and buzzword bullshit, but is this android api basically their way of killing YouTube frontends such as NewPipe, SmartTube and LibreTube to force their dystopian adscape on all of us again?
It's mostly just a way to sell businesses and websites on the idea.
On what idea?
If only their devs weren't lazy dumbasses, they wouldn't need that shit to inject their ads into videos in the first place. Pathetic.
