The much maligned “Trusted Computing” idea requires that the party you are supposed to trust deserves to be trusted, and Google is DEFINITELY NOT worthy of being trusted, this is a naked power grab to destroy the open web for Google’s ad profits no matter the consequences, this would put heavy surveillance in Google’s hands, this would eliminate ad-blocking, this would break any and all accessibility features, this would obliterate any competing platform, this is very much opposed to what the web is.

  • Pigeon@beehaw.orgEnglish
    18·
    1 year ago

    It sounds like VPN’s would also get flagged as bots? Or could easily be treated as such.

    • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
      25·
      1 year ago

      They could get rid of ad blockers, anonymity, Tor, VPNs, Firefox, torrenting sites, independently hosted websites, open-source servers and non-Google Linux clients all in one go. It would be a corporate dream come true.

      Or we could stop using their tools and services and fork off the internet run for people from the internet run for profit. It doesn’t need to be big or slick; it just needs to be there.

      • Senex@reddthat.comEnglish
        12·
        1 year ago

        I like the idea of Internet 2.0. Kinda like what we are doing here on Lemmy. Corporate ruins it, we build it anew!

      • Tau@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        There are even alternative root-servers so we can even escape from the TLD hell