Post by @Chaunticleer@lemmy.dbzer0.com

@Chaunticleer@lemmy.dbzer0.com

2026-09-18 02:26 UTC

Huh. I guess I hadn’t thought of that because I don’t personally plan on using any Google, Apple, or Amazon services or devices. Kind of already cut most of it out of my life, but for companies that still will insist on having Google support yeah those jobs probably will still demand you give ID to those companies. That will suck. They kind of already identify people’s devices, phones anyway. Canvas tracing is getting most people id’d by correlating the info like how you describe. For marketing and propoganda that might be worth the effort. I think the real cash cow in forcing everyone to use their services will be claiming ownership of any work that gets created using it. Kind of like employers do if you build anything while under a contract.

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@WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-09-18 02:36

As I was reading it, this would affect any site that is using Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon (etc.) infrastructure services as well. That covers a huge swath of the internet—GitHub, news sites, eBay…it’s hard to think of a major site that wouldn’t be tangentially connected to one of those mega-providers through ads, hosting, networking, and the rest. I’m not even considering work computers, I’m talking about my personal server potentially needing ID to download stuff or serve results through SearXNG. The dependency on major service providers extends to so many sites that it is hard to fathom how we could access much of anything other than torrents and Lemmy, and even some Lemmy instances could end up affected depending on how they’ve set up their instance. I don’t think they’d go to all this trouble if it just meant you couldn’t see the next iPhone on the Apple website—they’re doing this to create an environment where you’d essentially need a license to use the internet…”for the children.”

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