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
    2·
    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.

    • Durotar@lemmy.mlEnglish
      0·
      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
        1·
        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.