A peaceful protest againt Web Environment Integrity by th3maid · Pull Request #187 · chromium/chromium
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A peaceful protest is underway against mega corporations attempting to impose DRM on the web, aiming to gain control over all content possible and making our lives worse.

I thought this was kind of a fun way to show discontent with Chromiums added Web Integration - someone made a pull request to simply remove it.

Its already been approved by a lot of us, why not add your approval as well? Click the Approve button and add your name to the list of people supporting the removal.

Google will of course not care but I thought it was a fun gesture.

    • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.deEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Chromium is by far the dominant browser engine. What they do is effectively the standard and implemented by websites and thus approved. That’s why this has to be stopped there.

        • Dran@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          1 year ago

          And there are still WebApps today (especially in the business internal network world) that only work with IE6 because Microsoft was just throwing their own standards out and doing whatever they wanted.

          When you are the dominant player and you make standards that no one else can follow, you destroy competition. We got lucky that businesses and developers liked blink and WebKit, if businesses had been able to make more money from only supporting trident that’s exactly what would have happened. “Use IE without tabs or an adblocker or you can’t access Facebook, Steam, Gmail, your bank, etc”

          You don’t have the choice as an individual when the choice is made for you.

      • stravanasu@lemmy.caEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Luckily “effectively the standard” is just a temporary thing. What browser was considered “standard” has changed many times in the past, and will continue to change in the future. Of course for this to happen everyone who cares must keep on pushing.

      • Durotar@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Google doesn’t care about this protest because it has no real impact on their business. This is more of an emotional thing, this is for us. I’m not saying that people shouldn’t fight. But in reality, spreading information about the upcoming change and urging people to switch to other browsers (along with replacing other services) is the only thing that could produce tangible results in the long term. Hence, I tend to agree with the user above.

        • mrmanager@lemmy.todayOPEnglish
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          1 year ago

          We will see. It could get picked up by some media person and made into a bigger thing. After all, many developers are approving this at a rapid pace right now, several per minute.

          If I was writing an article about this as a tech journalist, I would include that x number of developers have signed a PR trying to remove this shit from chromium. It has a value as a symbolic message.

  • stravanasu@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 year ago

    It’s reached 333 protesters! that’s 1/3 of the way to 1000, it’d be cool if it kept on increasing :)

    • dbilitated@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      1 year ago

      yeah I’d prefer a PR that removes the filename and actually builds so it could be merged… the emojis might be better as a comment. although json doesn’t support comments iirc so maybe just a thoughtful commit message.