Reddits remaining moderators. :)
mrmanager
joined 1 year ago
Very cool, the more the better :)
Edit: Not possible to install yet for me.
Yeah I honestly liked this text too.
No it was part of the request actually :)
A picture of people who approved so far :)
And the page with a timeline and some comments:
It's ad blocking and entire operating systems, or computers configured in any way they don't like.
If this goes through, they can force you to install any plugins they wish, or disable any plugins they wish. Or make sure you don't run Linux and only Windows or Mac. They can force you to have your camera on. They can do anything since they make the rules.
No innovation will take place. Competing browsers or software will not be allowed or manipulated into marketed as "unsafe".
This is a takeover of the open web stack as we know it.
Until they decide you can't.
You will be really thankful for learning Linux in the future, the way big tech is going now.
And that's exactly the point. WEI makes it a world where big tech decides if they are going to support a competing browser, a competing operating system like Linux, or plugins against ads. They can also force you to have any number of plugins installed, from their choosing.
It destroys the free web completely.
I think it's largely because of Brendan Eich not supporting gay marriage. The browser itself seems fine to me also.
We will see. It could get picked up by some media person and made into a bigger thing. After all, many developers are approving this at a rapid pace right now, several per minute.
If I was writing an article about this as a tech journalist, I would include that x number of developers have signed a PR trying to remove this shit from chromium. It has a value as a symbolic message.
I don't know, I like Lemmy much better.