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It’s funny to look back on all the people who were doing the “see, the world didn’t fall apart just because apple had to allow sideloading” over the last month.
by paulmd 3y ago
It’s funny to look back on all the people who were doing the “see, the world didn’t fall apart just because apple had to allow sideloading” over the last month. Like the law didn’t even come into effect yet and google is already flexing their monopoly power / browser monoculture, but people think that just because the internet didn’t explosively destruct overnight that everything is gonna be just fine.
See also, the “well, if they start abusing it, we can pass a new law to handle that!”. Yeah ok that’ll be great in 10 years, but what about now?
Manifest v3, the chrome Secure Enclave/remote attestation of ad delivery, and other measures are going to be coming down the pipe at an accelerated rate, and there's absolutely nothing to put the brakes on them anymore, because we now have a browser monoculture run by the world's largest adtech oligopoly. But people got their emotional victory over apple users and the app-review process.
Next stage: Youtube requires chrome, install it or get out. And I better see some remote attestation on that request, if you want FREE video. Why wouldn't they, when chrome/chromium control like 95% of every web request that's not iOS?
Now we get to do it again with RCS, where it's an "open" system that's chock-full of proprietary google extensions that google refuses to license or interoperate on. But everyone will nod along at how bad imessage is, and deliver us right into google's own proprietary system.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/08/new-google-site-begs-apple-for-mercy-in-messaging-war/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/08/new-google-site-begs...
- idonotknowwhy 3y agoWe'll end up with a Firefox add on to bypass this. And failing that, a piratebay of YouTube videos
- paulmd 3y agoThe entirety of HDCP exists to prevent this. That has literally been the driving factor in Secure Enclave adoption since day 1 too (along with bitlocker, but, video DRM has always been the other big one). There will always be vulnerabilities and improper implementations and workarounds, but, the entire point of secure enclave is for someone at netflix or your employer's HQ to be comfortable knowing they have a toehold in your machine that can't be broken via Remote Attestation, and that there is no way for you to get the keys out of it when it's acting as a HSM. You can always disable it/etc, or use another browser (like firefox) that doesn't provide a secure enclave. But then, google won't serve you video, just like netflix reduces the stream quality for people who don't have the hardware DRM set up right. Since 95% of the world is already using chrome anyway (other than ios), this is a pretty low-risk move.
- johnnyanmac 3y ago>a piratebay of YouTube videos that'd be infeasible to do given the sheer volume of videos uploaded per day. even if we limited it to the most subscribed creators (10m+ subs) it'd be hard for pirates to keep up. Not to mention seeding. If we had enough seeders to keep that sort of volume up, those p2p video services would be in a much better state.
- somsak2 3y agoWho even uses Pirate Bay anymore?
- jowea 3y agoIs sideloading annoyting enough that Google doing this would risk their quasi-monopoly on long general video on demand?
- sahaj 3y agoI don't follow what one has to do with the other. Sounds like quite a stretch to compare or relate the two there. I could just be missing what you are implying there.