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Nils@feddit.de to linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 2 years ago

Google is ruining the entire web

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Google is ruining the entire web

Nils@feddit.de to linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 2 years ago
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    They’re adding DRM? In what way?

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      Basically by allowing websites to refuse to load unless the browser the operating system running the browser promises that the user isn’t allowed to know what the computer is doing. And Google super duper promises this won’t be used for evil.

      https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/googles-web-integrity-api-sounds-like-drm-for-the-web/

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        If you want to experience this kind of feature today, try streaming in 1080p or better on Linux. Worse than DVD quality even if you pay for 4K HDR, just because of DRM.

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          Which platform? Netflix works fine - do you mean YouTube?

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            YouTube doesn’t have invasive DRM (on normal videos), playing any resolution works on Linux. Netflix only ever plays in 720p for me however, regardless of browser (you can check the stats with crtl + alt + shift + d). There are extensions for Firefox and Chrome to fix this issue luckily. But if Google’s DRM for the web goes through this might not be so easy anymore.

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          I’ve never had this happen on YouTube or any other video streaming website.

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            YouTube doesn’t use invasive DRM. It’s mainly Netflix (there’s a workaround for 1080p), Prime Video, Disney+, Paramount+, etc.

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              O wow, glad I never paid for any of those then

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        allowing websites to refuse to load unless the browser the operating system running the browser promises that the user isn’t allowed to know what the computer is doing

        So they won’t support Linux anymore?

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          That seems to be the message everyone is drawing from this.

          I think it’ll be more insidious than that, there will be Linux, but only “signed, verified” Linux will be allowed, and the only Linux distributions that will make that list are the ones with corporate or government versions. Specifically distributions like Google’s Android, IBM’s Red Hat, Canonical’s Ubuntu, and China’s Kylin.

          This is still as horrible. Imagine Ubuntu winning the snap vs flatpack exchange, because their OS is ‘legit’, whereas every other distro is pushed out, because it’s too much work to install an unsigned OS.

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        Yeah, I’m sure they fucking do lol Glad I use a combination of it, Firefox, and Opera GX now to diversify

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          Everything not Firefox or Safari is Chromium based.

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            Then I guess I’m still glad that’s in my mix lol

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      You can read a little about it here

      I also encourage you to look at the GitHub…be warned that there are some quite angry folks on there

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        Understandable lol

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      https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/googles-web-integrity-api-sounds-like-drm-for-the-web/

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