Doesn’t matter. Websites will break on the rest of the browsers. Users will complain. All browsers now have Web DRM
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.
I doubt that but website owners that implement it might receive enough death threads to reconsider I guess, it’s the internet after all.
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.
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.
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).
Call me when Safari weighs in with their 20% share. That’s a big enough group to actually kill this effort outright.
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.
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.
Brave is also built on Chromium and they won’t be adding support for the API.
This will go through. Firefox already caved on the video/audio DRM last time, and even if they don’t, people will just switch browsers. The only thing that could do anything about this are powerful governments and maybe Apple. But Google has bribed all of Washington and half of Brussels at this point, and I imagine the press actually likes the idea of putting DRM on their shitty websites, so they won’t make a big stink I don’t think, even though they beef with Google. If Apple actually drags their feet I’m sure Google can bribe them.
Mozilla:
Mozilla opposes this proposal…
I wish they took a stronger stance like Brave:
We won’t be shipping WEI support
C’mon Mozilla, show some gonads.
Well, that’s nearly 3% of the market.
Google’s plan is foiled once again.
Of desktop, maybe.
Overall (and like 60% of all browsing is now mobile), no way. Mobile is where alternative browsers really suffer. Firefox actually seems OK for Android but it’s not quite as slick on many sites, probably due to them targeting Chrome. Apple force Safari on you so you can’t use Firefox at all.
Apple are the only other ones big enough to throw their weight around. Hopefully they join in.
