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68 points

Doesn’t matter. Websites will break on the rest of the browsers. Users will complain. All browsers now have Web DRM

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Or web site owners that use it will go out of business because people don’t want to change their browsers. The companies will realize their decision was bad when all of a sudden their customers stop coming to their sites.

Google needs shut down! Or at least go back to being a search engine.

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36 points

The chance that happens when google is the most used is pretty small

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The chance of that happening when large corporations, banks, etc. start rolling this out…

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Unfortunately

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Call me when Safari weighs in with their 20% share. That’s a big enough group to actually kill this effort outright.

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And 90% of them complain about privacy invasions by big tech or lack of anonymity

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We need some new Anti-Monopoly governments to come into power and take a hatchet and machete to google and carve it up, and learn from the ATT/Ma Bell situation by making it so the richest fragment cant buy up all the remaining fragments after a couple decades and go all T2000 on the situation.

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I don’t see that too soon, big companies control the government. Unless that can be stopped, which it won’t, the little guy is going to continue to be screwed in the advancement of capitalism

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Or someone will somehow create a new web browser or add-on or just another branch of Chromium that fakes out the DRM somehow.

Like with ReVanced, for example. It’s a modified version of the YouTube app with an adblocker and several other bells and whistles added on (and the ability to remove a lot of Google’s own bells and whistles).

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The best thing that could happen is google get shut down at this point

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The effect those people will have on profit margins probably are negligible, given the large amount of people using Google-created web browsers already.

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I doubt that but website owners that implement it might receive enough death threads to reconsider I guess, it’s the internet after all.

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I’m not recommending death threats, but maybe hit them wheee it really hurts. Everyone quit using the internet for a week or two. And I do mean everyone around the world. Hell we survived quite well without the internet until the late 80’s, we have the knowledge, so let’s use it.

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Unfortunately you’re probably right. Vivaldi has already said they will likely adopt this standard despite them disagreeing with it, I assume the same will happen to Firefox and Brave if the standard becomes widely adopted and used enough. Its not an easy issue to tackle. The good thing is we can fight back and push its adoption back as far as possible, as well as just avoiding and boycotting any websites that adopt the standard. I don’t know if the push back will be big enough to make an impact, but we at least have to try and do what we can.

We’ve already seen DRM garbage added to nearly every browser for media playback, despite massive backlash and concerns from organizations like the EFF. Mozilla didn’t want to adopt it iirc but they caved in to not lose market share and adopted it in the most user friendly and secure/privacy respective way that they could (Restricting the DRM in its own sandbox), so I could see something like that happen again unfortunately. However to be fair, this new Google DRM standard will be significantly worse and more of a problem than that DRM implementation, as this effects entire websites themselves now and is on a whole new scale and precedent, and not just for certain media content, so hopefully more can be done to prevent this and fight back.

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Vivaldi has no choice. They have built their browser on Blink, which is made by Google. Google will force them to comply. Their way out would be to go back to the Opera web browser, which they gave up on over a decade ago.

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Brave is also built on Chromium and they won’t be adding support for the API.

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I wonder if there can be any anti-monopoly law suits involved if Google just starts implementing drm on its websites and products without other browsers agreeing to implement it. Sounds a lot like “use chrome, or else.”

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