• kitonthenet@kbin.social
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    30
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    11 months ago

    Who’s already using this thing? I know Google ships it, but is anyone checking it yet

    • lemmyvore@feddit.nl
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      20
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      11 months ago

      It’s good odds that banks and streaming services are scrambling to implement it as we speak. You know they are. DRM is the perpetual wet dream for the music & film industry and for streaming services. And banks are paranoid as a matter of course.

      It’s going to be very hard to say no, especially since they can say “but Chrome is working on all platforms, nobody’s pushing you out of anything”. Will you drop stream subscriptions? Everybody loves to say they’ll drop Netflix “as soon as they push me one more time”, but what about a service you actually like? And what about banks, are those as easy to switch?

      I’ve been through this for years now with Android and SafetyNet and it’s a lot of hoops to have to jump through to stop being considered a second class user on your own device. It’s going to suck extra bad when it comes to PC.

      As for Google services themselves, I’m very curious to see in what order and how they choose to make WEI mandatory. Maybe not for Search and Gmail, at first, but what about accessing your Google Account, surely that must be secured? And YouTube of course, that’s got DRM written all over it.

      • Buttons@programming.dev
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        7
        ·
        11 months ago

        Hope my bank likes paying people to answer my calls, because that’s how I’ll be interacting with them if I can’t use a web page.

      • kitonthenet@kbin.social
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        5
        arrow-down
        2
        ·
        11 months ago

        Will you drop stream subscriptions

        Yes, I’ve got one foot out the door already. Shits too expensive, they kill all the best shows, they take down movies and stuff before I get a chance to watch them. I don’t even have Netflix, in my opinion is one of the worse streamers. I cancelled HBO a couple months ago, I only have ESPN+ and Apple TV

        what about banks

        If you’re not using a local bank or credit union I can’t help you, shit sucks and who is actually going to the branches anymore. Bank where old people bank.

        Beyond that Google search is ass (everyone knows this) Gmail is fine but only because it’s “free”, you can easily switch to a cheap alternative. YouTube is the only compelling product Google has anymore and honestly I’ll just pay for nebula if I really care about losing it

      • notacuban@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        25
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        11 months ago

        That’s a completely unrelated issue with Logitech. Firefox is “blocked” because it doesn’t support WebUSB (nor does Safari). I understand this web DRM is bad tech and we want to be morally outraged, but spreading misinformation makes the Lemmy crowd look less like activists/enthusiasts and more like chicken little.