If you use Chrome, you’re supporting this utter shit (tl;dr Google is moving to ban adblockers by introducing DRM for websites): https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/blob/main/explainer.md
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 03:09:13 JST Thomas 🔭✨
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 03:10:39 JST Thomas 🔭✨
I guess AMP was a failure, so they’re trying again in another way to destroy the Web.
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 05:27:25 JST Thomas 🔭✨
@Kerchief7592 @blhue @WeiMingKai Bonus, Brave is run by a homephobe and financed by right-wing douchewaffles
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Kerchief (kerchief7592@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 05:27:28 JST Kerchief
@blhue @WeiMingKai @thomasfuchs guys, Brave is built on top of Chromium. If Google pushes this it will be in Chromium first. Even if it’s not using a direct Google product, it’s giving them power on how they can dictate stuff on the web. Edge, Vivaldi, Opera etc are build on top of chromium
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blhue (blhue@universeodon.com)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 05:27:31 JST blhue
@WeiMingKai @thomasfuchs Agreed! I wrote off Google and all its services many years ago and have had nothing but good experience using #brave #browser and #duckduckgo for the past many years. It’s a nice feeling.
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WMK (weimingkai@mastodon.online)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 05:27:32 JST WMK
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I recently started using DuckDuckGoIt’s a more relaxing way to browse and watch because it cuts back on a bunch of nonsense and #enshitification
So maybe give it a try if chrome is going to start behaving like Elno owns it
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 06:46:18 JST Thomas 🔭✨
@WanderingInDigitalWorlds I’m using Authy, but switching to Apple’s Keychain for 2FA (more convenient for me)
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Digital Medicine Peddler (wanderingindigitalworlds@mstdn.games)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 06:46:19 JST Digital Medicine Peddler
@thomasfuchs Ugh, this is troublesome news...I don't want to support Google in their time of being a massive asshat.
I need to investigate alternatives that work well with my Google 2FA and Password less Sign-in. I'm a bit too tied to their ecosystem right now. 😭
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EndlessMason (endlessmason@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 07:13:58 JST EndlessMason
@thomasfuchs not destroy, enclose
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 07:39:43 JST Thomas 🔭✨
@AvonVilla yes you do, but it’s a monopoly so there’s so alternative to see the content.
There’s other browsers than Chrome and other email servers than Gmail and other apps than Google’s and other phones and other [etc.]
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Jon F :anarchist_flag: & ☮️ (avonvilla@aus.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 07:39:44 JST Jon F :anarchist_flag: & ☮️
@thomasfuchs But if you even use youtube you are still supporting utter shit, because google owns it. Come on Thomas, you can do better than this!
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 07:45:37 JST Thomas 🔭✨
@j2kun goodbye to you and your horrible company 👋
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Jeremy Kun (j2kun@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 07:45:38 JST Jeremy Kun
@thomasfuchs the explainer explicitly says "don't interfere with browser plugins". Where'd you get the "kill ad blockers part" from. You think the doc is lying?
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 08:07:45 JST Thomas 🔭✨
@AvonVilla YouTube has, right now, a 99% market share of any creator-made video content. This means there’s literally no alternative to it _that has the content_.
I’d love it if creators would cross post to other platforms.
Alas, they almost never do.
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Jon F :anarchist_flag: & ☮️ (avonvilla@aus.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 08:07:46 JST Jon F :anarchist_flag: & ☮️
@thomasfuchs No alternative? Sounds like you are bowing to the mightiness of the unstoppable google. Better to say, "don't watch youtube, don't upload to youtube". If you ignore things like peertube, why even bother being on mastodon. You could equally argue there's "no alternative" to twitter.
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Greg (theaspiringnerd@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 08:14:17 JST Greg
@thomasfuchs does that apply to all Chromium based browsers too?
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 10:14:48 JST Thomas 🔭✨
Oh man the issues that people created on this 😂
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Father Enoch (fatherenoch@mastodon.online)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 10:15:21 JST Father Enoch
What if you use #Brave?
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 10:15:21 JST Thomas 🔭✨
@FatherEnoch then you’re using a browser engine from Google, but with extra code by homophobes
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 11:27:57 JST Thomas 🔭✨
@ScottStarkey I think it's hard to escape their clutches completely, but there's definitely some stuff that I won't use (unless I have to for e.g. testing).
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Scott Starkey :verified: (scottstarkey@clj.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 11:27:58 JST Scott Starkey :verified:
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This is causing me to investigate deGoogling.In conversation permalink -
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jul-2023 02:28:01 JST Thomas 🔭✨
@kellyn That’s fair, obviously I’m calling to boycott them only if you can. I try to as much as I can but can’t get out of their clutches completely either.
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Rev. Kellyn Delgado (kellyn@friendo.space)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jul-2023 02:28:06 JST Rev. Kellyn Delgado
@thomasfuchs Please don't throw ordinary users under the bus with this. Boycotting Google will do nothing to stop this for one and two, people can't just stop using Chrome just because Google does bad shit. I use a Chromebook but I DO NOT support this!
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 23-Jul-2023 01:22:29 JST Thomas 🔭✨
@codrusofathens They replaced that with "Let's be really evil" a decade or so ago
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Codrus :archlinux: 🇺🇲 (codrusofathens@linuxrocks.online)'s status on Sunday, 23-Jul-2023 01:22:30 JST Codrus :archlinux: 🇺🇲
@thomasfuchs Hey Google, isn't your motto DON'T BE EVIL?
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 24-Jul-2023 23:27:19 JST Thomas 🔭✨
@marathon Brave is run by a homophobe stuffed with right-wing money, so pass
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marathon (marathon@fosstodon.org)'s status on Monday, 24-Jul-2023 23:27:20 JST marathon
@thomasfuchs What about Brave? Have they managed to get around this with their blocker set on say, strict?
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 24-Jul-2023 23:33:24 JST Thomas 🔭✨
@marathon Homophobia isn't politics.
And no, that doesn't make me fascist. Fuck off.
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marathon (marathon@fosstodon.org)'s status on Monday, 24-Jul-2023 23:33:25 JST marathon
@thomasfuchs OK but don't you agree that even they, can take privacy/security seriously? I mean in the end it shouldn't be about politics but about the quality of the technology. Otherwise one is just as fascist in thought/dogma.
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