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Chrome not proceeding with Web Integrity API deemed by many to be DRM (9to5google.com)

submitted 8 months ago by CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml

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cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/5707453

The Chrome team says they're not going to pursue Web Integrity but...

it is piloting a new Android WebView Media Integrity API that’s “narrowly scoped, and only targets WebViews embedded in apps.”

They say its because the team "heard your feedback." I'm sure that's true, and I can wildly speculate that all the current anti-trust attention was a factor too.

Many said we couldn't stop it. We, like many, applied pressure, and they backed the fuck off.

We have no room for complacency now though. Google cannot be allowed to dictate web standards. Firefox needs to eat into that Chromium market share. Never forgive. Never forget.

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[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Everything in this world seems to be like that. To make our lives moderately better we have to constantly tell, scream, and fight to get just a sliver. But if we give up at all just for a breather they'll push all the terrible crap on us

[–] ArbiterXero@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Narcissist folk play the system like it’s a game… to be won. It’s not about having a decent life and leaving the people around you to also have a decent life, I need to be richer or more powerful than the joneses down the street.

You can’t convince them to stop it. They’ve infected all the political parties because “power” is what they’re after. They’ll get it because normal folks aren’t interested in the kinds of sacrifice required to maintain control.

I don’t have a good answer, but to the best I can tell, this is how societies fail, and eventually this one will too.

I don’t think there’s a way to stop it either. No idea.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 2 points 8 months ago

By definition the only way to gain power in a democracy is to want the power enough to fight for it, and the only people who want that power are the ones who don't deserve it. That doesn't mean I've lost faith in democracy, but showing a fatal weakness in it that is being exploited right now.