• nothingcorporate@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      47
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      If they push a few million people to FOSS and we’re all just happily using Lemmy and Mastodon on Firefox in Linux, I’m ok with that.

      • sock@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        1 year ago

        if search engines that werent google didnt suck id be happy to use another one. even google is getting worse results now too but at least its usually wrong really quickly

    • VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      11
      ·
      1 year ago

      And switching away from physical products like Logitech peripherals that are already forcing you to go to a site that only works in chromium browsers in order to pair.

    • nothingcorporate@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      4
      arrow-down
      3
      ·
      1 year ago

      If they push a few million people to FOSS and we’re all just happily using Lemmy and Mastodon on Firefox in Linux, I’m ok with that.

    • Mountaineer@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      62
      arrow-down
      5
      ·
      edit-2
      1 year ago

      So you won’t use your banks website?
      Or your utilities (gas/water/electricity/internet)?
      You won’t let your kids use the portal at their school for submitting assignments?
      Your government sites for renewing your drivers license or scheduling hard refuse pickup?

      I can think of lots of reasons that will force me to have chrome installed if this goes ahead.

      • yukichigai@kbin.social
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        51
        ·
        1 year ago

        Your government sites for renewing your drivers license or scheduling hard refuse pickup?

        As a government programmer, let me assure you that we’re so goddamn far behind modern tech we’ve only just stopped supporting IE6.

          • yukichigai@kbin.social
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            10
            ·
            edit-2
            1 year ago

            In all seriousness we make sure things work with modern browsers, but you’re never going to find a government agency requiring the latest and most advanced tech. For one thing, nothing in government moves fast enough to make that even remotely possible.

            Also there’s no way I’m gonna learn how to use some new piece of tech every few months. They don’t pay us nearly enough for that kind of effort.

            EDIT: Oh but I wasn’t kidding about dropping support for IE6 recently. It was like a year or so ago, not last week, but still.

          • yukichigai@kbin.social
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            2
            ·
            1 year ago

            State of Nevada in my case, but I’ve worked with a lot of other state and federal agencies. Pretty much all of them are like that. At best their legislatures will get a wild hair and spend a bunch of money on some off-the-shelf “latest and greatest” product (not really, it’s usually something like Salesforce) and they’ll be top of the line for a few years, but when it comes to actually keeping it upgraded and cutting edge that never happens.

      • gnuplusmatt@startrek.website
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        8
        ·
        1 year ago

        I can think of lots of reasons that will force me to have chrome installed if this goes ahead.

        it might even go as far as being chrome on a supported OS (win/mac/cros/android with google play services)

      • digdug@kbin.social
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        8
        ·
        1 year ago

        I work on the website for a medium sized utility, and will definitely resist implementing this.

        I have been trying to convince my manager to let me switch to an authentication solution that supports webauthn, though.

        • Black_Gulaman@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          7
          ·
          1 year ago

          A manager only has so much power. Once the higher ups decide on things, nothing can be done. And we see too much examples of executive level people that are so out of touch.

          • digdug@kbin.social
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            3
            ·
            edit-2
            1 year ago

            I was just thinking about this more, and what if Google decides to implement this on Google maps? Am I going to have to put a message up saying something like, “sorry, you can’t view our outage map unless you use a browser that supports web integrity”?

            Because you’re right, convincing the higher ups to let me switch to OpenStreetMap is probably going to be a losing battle.

        • Mountaineer@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          17
          ·
          1 year ago

          This whole episode is giving me flashbacks to the ActiveX days.

          Image

          The tyranny of the default.

          “Here mum, I’ve installed Firefox for you, it’s better than Chrome in every way!”
          “My knitting circle website doesn’t work, I can’t download patterns, it says I need Chrome”

          Internet Explorer was effectively abandon-ware for a decade after Microsoft used their OS pseudo-monopoly to crush Netscape.
          It took another tech giant abusing THEIR monopoly to relegate IE to the trash heap it should have already been on.

  • Adalast@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    23
    ·
    1 year ago

    laughs in Safe Script

    I haven’t had ads showing up in decades. I literally have all of the google addons for websites revoked, as well as every advertising outlet, don’t block the ads, block the javascript that services them.

  • HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    16
    ·
    1 year ago

    Any EU people around here that could eli5 this new thing and the possible consequences for EU residents using the internet?

  • Dolphinfucker420@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    13
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    My main browser is tor, blocks JavaScript so 🤷

    I have Firefox but use it exclusively for school stuff that doesn’t work on tor

  • jwagner7813@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    12
    ·
    1 year ago

    Lol it’s like going back in time. I remember the days when sites wouldn’t support certain browsers because of differences in programming (accidental, if you will). Now, we’ve gone full circle and are intentionally blocking use of a site when not using a particular browser. Wouldn’t this be considered monopolistic?