I guess the W3C was always prone to this sort of thing.
If I’m not mistaken the funding comes largely from corporate membership.
We need more detail to react appropriately.
- For a start who leaned on who to make this happen
- then who voted against it
- who voted for it.
Armed with that we can make our choices, like:
- Boycott those who oppose our desire to control our lives
- Adopt or become involved in creating alternate browsers, that aren’t our enemies
- Techniques like filtering and fixing web content programmatically (on our own machines)
- Adopting other protocols…
- Finding out how to turn off DRM in the browsers we use (I have no problem with never seeing a page, or having a blank in there, if needs be.)
- Ways to prevent any potentially malicious DRM associated code getting onto our systems
There are a few things out there that are started on some of these roads, in some sense.
(I haven’t tested or analysed these thoroughly but here’s some food for thought, Cliqz, https://netrunner.cc/, https://contnet.org/ )
