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Presumably the end game is for Google and a few other corporations to control what web browsers you can use to access most of the web. Mozilla may or may not pl
by failbuffer 3y ago
Presumably the end game is for Google and a few other corporations to control what web browsers you can use to access most of the web. Mozilla may or may not play asking (they did on EME). Linux won't work except maybe for Ubuntu and Red Hat build if/once they get around to adding support for it. That could be a long time since you need a long chain of verifications to pass thru the browser, OS, kernel, boot environment, and TPM to work AND you'll need to convince Google that the chain is strong enough to not be hacked. Ad blockers will be shut out at some point.
And no, you can't just go back to playing flight simulator off of floppies. Your bank, your airplane and concert tickets, heck even your child's pediatrician will require it. Not that doctors are hungrily reading up new web specifications, but they'll be using a medical services platform that relies on some cloudflare defaults that all the security guys like because it cuts down on bots and DDoS.
You'll be left using walled garden operating systems that spy and advertise as incessantly as cable TV.
Maybe a big stink will cause Google to backtrack a little, or make promises they won't and can't ultimately keep. The only real solution is to use the government to prevent users from losing control.
- wilsonnb3 3y ago> Linux won't work except maybe for Ubuntu and Red Hat build if/once they get around to adding support for it They could have stopped Linux support from Chrome at any time, or not created it to begin with. Plus there are lots of people at Google who are using Linux, not to mention Chromebooks which are built on it. There is no reason to think that Google will kill Linux support with this or any feature.
- kevincrane 3y agoThose same employees at Google have plenty of opportunity to tell their leaders this is a shitty idea, and yet here we are.
- failbuffer 3y agoThey're not trying to kill Linux per se, it'll just be collateral damage. Only specially blessed builds of browser and OS will be allowed access to sites that use the new api. It defeats the point of the API if the user can control the behavior of the client.
- caskstrength 3y agoWell, obviously ChromeOS will be certified as is Android (their other popular Linux). I assume OP was talking about random non-corporate Linux distro manually installed on someones PC (e.g. Arch on my Thinkpad). These won't be able to access significant chunk of the Web anymore.
- curt15 3y ago>Well, obviously ChromeOS will be certified as is Android (their other popular Linux Specifically, ChromeOS running the google-signed, untampered, OS image
- EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 3y agoI'm somehow rely on hackers to promptly hack that chain. I believe in humanity.