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.

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    1 year ago

    Not a bad idea. Just also avoid Microsoft, Apple, and any non-open hardware or software… they all do the same stuff or worse.

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      1 year ago

      I don’t let perfection be the enemy of progress.

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        1 year ago

        Is it progress, or just picking a different cage?

        Good luck in your voyages though, my approach is to try keeping stuff in multiple cages, also far from perfect.