A little more on the Google DRM
A group of Google engineers has proposed a new Web API that threatens to uproot the work of apps and browsers if they interfere with its ad business. Will the open Web survive?
I'll preface this by saying I know I'm in the minority with this.
But all this will serve to do for me is stop me from using any websites or indeed browsers that utilise this. It will essentially just be lost traffic for them. However small of a drop in the pond that may be.
I think you underestimate the impact of this? Just a few situations I can think of:
Considering Chrome has such a large market share, sites will adopt it and people switch to Chrome because "it just works in Chrome". So Chrome will gain even more market share and other browsers (that previously resisted) are forced to follow and implement it in order not to lose any market share.
I think that you miss the most powerful point: Google will penalize in the searches all the websites that will not implement the new function, so every single business will implement it straight away!
Same here (well, I already use Firefox for the last decade or so). But as usual, people will choose whatever other people choose or whatever is the default and be fine with it.
Aren't there already laws that could prevent this new API thing? It seems that it is extremely intrusive into people's private business. At this point, I think Google should be broken up in smaller pieces.
Didn’t AdGuard adopted API changes before? Ironic.
If you want to get away with something evil, hide it inside of something boring. That's what they're doing.
