Capture everything you do on the browser 24/7 to machine-process it for “points”

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Simply asking for feedback or taking feedback directly on the points I’m interested, for example with a survey or Mozilla Connect

If they are so interested in asking me for my opinions on new features and design, they can post a survey. Stuff like Mozilla Connect already exists. No need to spy on everything I do (or don’t do).

I see. That sucks.

Until the creators of the content you need switch, it’s one of if not the hub where the content is.

This would be easy to “solve” from the reader end if Nitter was still operational, but I haven’t heard from the project or from any alternative in ages.

I hate this recommendation because Matrix is just a terrible user experience.

Heck agree. In my experience, IRC is a much better alternative.

Even if I agree that a locked down web is the most likely outcome, it’s just not a fact until someone working on that proposal outright says it was their intent, or it actually happens.

At which point it will be too late to decry it as such. You’ll already be locked out (or in).

Honestly, it seems we just naturally can’t see at the same eye leve, yeahl. You seem to be looking for dangers “down”, on newspaper reports on stuff already gone; I’m looking for dangers “up”, to the clouds in the sky and what meteorologists have to say about them.

It’s not about you, it’s about your attitude towards the problem.

I read the entire document and several replies form beginning to end. I’ve also lived through several internet enshittifications. The point of the article is that while sure, that’s what it says on print, we’ve gotta learn to read between the lines, in particular when it comes to big corps like Google. They “say” on non-commital writing it doesn’t aim to be DRM, sure; that’s just soft doublespeak to try and appease the first wave of peer review. This was even called out on mastodon by one of the contributors to #28 where they even quoted the dogwhistle-style wording.

Frankly? We already know how to auto-translate this corpo speak, we’ve had decades of this (and a fair amount of from Google itself, too). They say this, they say that, as they have countless times before. “We are inventing some Doomsday parts here. Might be useful in case someone wants to do Doomsday Stuff that we have done before on the weekly but don’t officially approve of on record. Like, say, build the Doomsaday Device from the book ‘Don’t Invent the Doomsday Device’.” If you say this does not intend to lock the web, you are lying to yourself and to others. Whether by evil intent or by negligence, I leave that one up to you.

, laying out the details of the proposal and its long-term consequences in an objective and informative way.

“Google wants to introduce DRM to the web”.

With the years of experience that we have with the disasters caused by all of “Google”, “wants”, “DRM” and “web”, how is this not objective and informative enough for a title?

Does it aim to destroy extensions and adblockers? No. Straight from the page itself:

Are you intentionally trying to be dense?

Yes. Firefox s the broweser. Mozilla Corporation is the golden parachute for its CEO.