They are still going to pursue it, just under a different name and rolling-out timeline. What they changed is only the way they are announcing it publicly.
It’s going to be “DRM for the Web, but with extra steps”.
Lets call it what it is, googles attempt to create a situation in which they can ban all competition and establish a global monopoly.
I partially agree. They created a monopoly because they offer the best search engine service. You can’t be accused of making a monopoly if your competition is embarrassingly bad and no one wants to use any service but yours.
What they are doing now, regardless of how they gained this monopoly, is ensuring that every cow that feeds on the grass of their field yields profitable milk.
DDG is pretty good and I use it exclusively. Google spams your search results with sponsored links. That’s bullshit
meanwhile apple already did it without even asking.
Google temporarily delays rollout of their DRM for Web until public attention shifts to something worse they propose that was always a smokescreen.
Yeah that’s the real summary.
They will try it again in like two to three years from now. This time they will just do a under the radar and somewhat diluted version of it.
…for now. This isn’t a beloved google service that people were relying on. This is the means by which google intents to subjugate and fully enshittify the web. They’ll try again under different names until one takes. It only has to work once.
Wow… Good riddance.
But yeah I wonder if this is really the end of it.
They will learn from this effort, call it R&D, and start working on something that is effectively worse but break it into smaller pieces. The new project will be less obviously evil at a glance.
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‘Google trashes its “DRM for the Web” API for now’ should be the actual headline
It is logical that this is not the end, Google has tried for more than a decade to use some dirty tricks and until now it has always hit its teeth on a rock. It’s an eternal game of cat and mouse between Google devs and other devs that override it. Now also helped by the EU and consumer associations that have already obtained million-dollar fines from Google, Fakebook, MS and Amazon for these abusive practices. Users in the US may have problems, because there corporations can roam freely because there are no laws that prevent them from doing so.
Every day I wake up and I’m grateful that I don’t live in the land of freedom /s
But seriously, a few million is nothing for these corporations, EU needs to up the game
Yes, but trusting only in the politicians and the bureaucracy, well… I think that the users themselves should have the initiative too, to do without in the most possible of products and services from the USA, at least those of large corporations and use the most products and services from the EU. It is the consumer himself who determines the market, corporations, to sell create needs where there are none, we must get out of this model and demand what we really need and not blindly use what these corporations say we need.
Until the next time this comes around.
And thousends of devs also working so that Google also runs into a wall next time.
