• @coolin@lemmy.ml
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    561 year ago

    As a Linux user this has got me very worried. Chromium has so much market share that this change will certainly go through, and I feel like Safari won’t care as it benefits them and their ecosystem to have device checks. I feel like Firefox and non standard OSes will almost certainly be blocked on a large range of websites with little impact on total users, not to mention completely blocking ad block and anti-tracking clients.

    I think eventually regulators in the US will file an antitrust lawsuit and break chromium off of Google if this actually happens, but until then Fediverse/FOSS and personal websites are going to be the only places untouched by this.

    • arefx
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      231 year ago

      I don’t think our politicians will do anything but protect big business, personally.

    • SokathHisEyesOpen
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      131 year ago

      Safari won’t care as it benefits them and their ecosystem to have device checks.

      Apparently Apple already rolled it out in a previous update, they just didn’t call any attention to it.

    • average lemmy user
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      71 year ago

      I just hope that google won’t try to lobby for this API like disney does for copyright changes