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.

    • beefcat@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Microsoft doesn’t control the standard, and the entire rest of the industry has no reason to ban non-Windows operating systems.

      Widnows doesn’t have the stranglehold over the market that it once did.

        • Scrath@feddit.deEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          The entire internet depends on machines running linux as servers. I highly doubt that any company has the power to change that

          • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
            3·
            1 year ago

            Yeah, it’s not likely for server racks. Laptops, though, seem somewhat plausible. I’m actually pretty happy with the momentum on tech issues now, on the other hand. I hear stories about right to repair in normal media, my country is in a straight-up showdown with big tech, and GDPR is well established.