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The text is also incredible misleading. The data will still be harvested and monetized, just not for ads.

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All TLS/HTTPS clients have a set of Certificate Authority keys which they trust. Your client will only accept a public key which is signed by a trusted CA's key. A proper CA will not sign a key for a domain when it has not verified that the entity that wants it's key signed actually controls the domain.

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Most people don't give a shit about these things. It might actually decrease if Netflix just tells people to install Chrome to watch Stranger Things

It's much more banal. YouTube is simply a monopoly abusing its market power. People would use alternatives if they existed.

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They are not alternatives because they don't have content. Streaming video is fairly trivial. Having content is not.

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Um what? Since when are open standards that allow vendor interoperability a bad thing?

This is typical enshittification. Make an impossibly good service to gain marketshare. Then make it worse once you've eliminated all competition and dominate the market.

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An AI model is a derivative work of its training data and thus a copyright violation if the training data is copyrighted.

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I do mind. EEE is a well established strategy. This time won't be different than every other time so massive tech company pretended to embrace open standards.

That's just not true

Humans and AI are not the same and an equivalence should never be drawn.

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If you're going to mention Frank Zappa you also have to mention "Sheik Yerbouti" and "Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch" by him.

The pricing only really works if you factor in the advertising afterwards.

He does credit someone else with coining the term.

Yeah, I open my 2FA app in split screen when I do this

They wanted to have compatibility with Chrome extensions. But that was all just a n EEE move by Google. More perfidious since they created the open standard in the first place

Wdym?

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