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Google is working on essentially putting DRM on the web (github.com)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The much maligned "Trusted Computing" idea requires that the party you are supposed to trust deserves to be trusted, and Google is DEFINITELY NOT worthy of being trusted, this is a naked power grab to destroy the open web for Google's ad profits no matter the consequences, this would put heavy surveillance in Google's hands, this would eliminate ad-blocking, this would break any and all accessibility features, this would obliterate any competing platform, this is very much opposed to what the web is.

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[+] [email protected] 113 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (8 children)

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 years ago

Please drink verification can

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Or they just ban you without recourse and poof all your data and accounts are dead.

Edit: consider using Google Takeout to download your data periodically as a hedge against trouble with your account. This will help prevent data loss in the event your account suddenly goes poof. It won't help you with the apps you bought though.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Thanks for this. I skimmed the proposal doc itself and didn't quite understand the concern people have with it – most of the concerns that came to my own mind are already listed as non-goals. The first few lines of this comment express a realistic danger that's innate to what's actually being proposed.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Being listed as a non-goal means nothing though. Who says it won't become a goal later on?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

Glory to ~~Arstotzka~~ ... I mean Alphabet.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Thank you for choosing Google!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm sorta sitting here in that same scenario. My iphone screen was severely broken last week, I don't use any other apple services. When I tried to get into it, my phone went into security lock mode. Coincidentally all of my 2FAs for my other accounts did their monthly checkin. No phone, no checkin so now I'm locked out of nearly all of my work accounts. Apple ID will renew in a few days, but I didn't think to take my broken phone with me on a trip, so my SIM with my phone number is now 1000s of miles away. So now I'm boned til I get home. 2FA works well until it works too well.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Please write for black mirror!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I would just move on at step 3