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[-] rtstragedy@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

I have some crazy theories about "why" this is happening, I'm not an expert though.

  1. I think that enforcing TPM is part of the end-to-end attestation plans for the Internet: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/googles-web-integrity-api-sounds-like-drm-for-the-web/ . TPM allows for a full stack, end-to-end, of hardware->operating system->browser trust chain to make sure you're not rooting your own system to get around DRM.
  2. This sells hardware as "never-linuxers" are forced to upgrade, and people who have been scraping by with old hardware are given an "excuse" to upgrade. I guess that results in profits for partners and also MS?

Maybe I sound crazy. At any rate, I'm really glad for places like Lemmy (and operating systems like Linux) existing, because I don't trust any for-profit tech company not to ban Firefox/Linux users/Ad block/video streaming/etc.

this post was submitted on 16 Aug 2023
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