The state of the internet 2023

For the millionth time, Stallman was right.

I think a lot of people here don't understand the danger of this fully and dismiss it with "Just use Firefox, problem solved".
Unfortunately, once this becomes widely available, that is once Chrome ships it, websites will start to use it.
Maybe Amazon will just not sell to you anymore when you're browsing with Firefox?
Maybe YouTube wont serve any videos if you're using Linux?
Your bank will certainly implement this and only allow Windows 11 with Edge or some shit like that.
Once this is implemented, we will all suffer, even if we're using better alternatives right now.

Stop using chrome. Yes brave is chrome

Just use Firefox, Mozilla already put their stance forward as opposing this garbage

Firefox is faster than chrome anyway nowadays.

DRM is stupid because it interferes with paying customers and isn’t effective. If there’s a will there’s a way

Google in 2004: don’t be evil Google in 2023: turns into Dr. Evil

Ah yes, 2023. The year I wore a pirate hat and touched more grass. Soon they'll be bribing the govt to make going outside illegal.

API changes*

One more time if anyone says that capitalism breeds innovation we need to show them this ¡!

Like, seriously, went through the last 10 years spending a good chunk of my day on Twitter and Reddit using Chrome, and suddenly I'm on Lemmy/Mastodon on Firefox.

"What's internet? It it like Googlenet but worse?"

-Some kid in the future

Plus the paid streaming services adding ads back in and they are all the SAME fucking ads?

🎶 Do what you want because a pirate is a free, you are a pirate! 🎶

Reddit don't have IPA on tap anymore?

Wait, Google's doing what now?

We'll make out own internet! With blackjack and hookers!

Does anyone else think that maybe this may cause a shift back to times before internet

Why watch the news when you can learn everything from memes

Honestly this is just depressing. And a little scary ?

Corporate greed is taking new heights and the things we took for granted are being taken away. It is all so dystopic...

Yeet.

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Dyslexic's being attacked by that font

For those interested in actively opposing this - the following blog offers some advice on how to do so.

https://blog.yoav.ws/posts/web_platform_change_you_do_not_like/

I'm used to dealing with DRM, too. If it can be stripped out of a game or other software, it could be stripped out of the internet itself. Maybe some of the old cracking scenes that quit due to boredom will return for the challenge.

tbh I'm just tired of all of this, we can't have nice things, ever... Every fucking thing in this world is being swallowed by corporate greed. Every service there's a catch, and I'm getting mad with it, things aren't made to serve their purpose, they only exist to make money and more money for people who already have infinite money, it's frustrating. Things need to change or everything is going to collapse... fuck companies, fuck billionaires, fuck stocks, fuck all of this

Well, well, well, would you look at that? We've done full circle, haven't we? It's time to go back to the old internet again.

You’d think fucking with our beer would have been the apocalypse moment

Can someone explain? I'm definitely out of the loop on this one

We are living in a real life 1984

We saw the mass adoption of the internet, which before was mostly used by a small group of techies. Now we might be heading to a split: The mass walled garden and a separate smaller but free internet.

I'm out of the loop.

Why is meta threatening the fediverse?

Hold on, what about Meta and the fediverse?

if this becomes actually widely used ill just quit the internet altogether, cause fuuuuuuuck that

IPA changes?

I recently played Hacknet, a hacking game published in 2015. That game talks a LOT about being tracked on the Internet, telling you to delete logs and some IP address data in file headers.

I think it's becoming reality.

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Dont forget the drone tracking bill, remoteID. Louis Rossemann

This might be an unpopular and ignorant take.

Services like Reddit, Twitter and Youtube needs to make money somehow. They provide a service that the users enjoy, and it is fair that they want componsation for those services. Aslong as they are upfront with how and what you are paying with I think it is fine, and the user can themself choose not to use the service if they feel like the payment is too high.

It seems like we are whining about not being able to watch quality content for free. Even Lemmy needs donations or kind souls to keep running.

The DRM and Chrome changes might be worse... But in the end it is the same base argument, we need more competition to reduce the price or stop using services we don't like / want to pay for.