Why Bother With uBlock Origin Being Blocked In Chrome? Now Is The Best Time To Switch To Firefox
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  • ilmagico@lemmy.worldEnglish
    30·
    1 year ago

    Time to boycott widevine and insist websites switch to an open standard … (though honestly good luck with that, Google might very well win that battle)

    • kingthrillgore@lemmy.mlEnglish
      23·
      1 year ago

      Not that easy since the W3C mandates everyone use Widevine or something similar. There was such a shitshow over this that the EFF pulled out of the org.

      Google has the internet by the danglies via this little whatsit and the W3C can do nothing about it, because Google accounts for a sizable amount of their funding, and dropping Widevine/EME would break everything.

    • ilmagico@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      1 year ago

      Also, Google could just more simply stop funding Firefox: Mozilla gets a lot of money from Google just to be the default search engine. Then again, maybe Firefox can switch to Bing or Duckduckgo, though I don’t know if those would pay as well as Google.

      • decisivelyhoodnoises@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        22·
        1 year ago

        Google is not funding Firefox only for the search engine being default. Google needs to keep Firefox alive because it is their sole competitor. If Firefox (Mozilla) goes down, Google can be accused for monopoly practices which is something they want to avoid.