cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/6738148
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.
IT guy here. Most people do not, in fact, have an ad blocker installed.
That’s actually a surprise given how easy it is to install one.
Next you’ll be telling us that most people don’t care about companies like Google, Meta and Twitter vacuuming up as much of their data as humanly possible.
Maybe they care, maybe they don’t, but they definitely value convince over privacy.
Which is strange because I find the internet without an ad blocker to be extremely inconvenient
That’s possibly the most depressing thing I’ve read all year.
You’d be surprised at how many “easy” things someone will avoid because they’re a “not computer person” and think clicking the wrong button will launch a fucking nuke.
To be fair, a lot of my customers are clueless boomers.