I own a Pinephone and it wasn't ready for daily driving. Even the battery issues meant that when sleeping, phones wouldn't always wake to receive a call which can be critical. Software is still quite immature, but I would consider buying a Pinephone Pro from them in future as happy with hardware side of things. It will get there, and it's cool to see the progress, in the end, I went with a Pixel with GrapheneOS (degoogled android) which is pretty reliable for the essentials and having access the android apps in a sandbox.
If you're looking for a daily driver, it's probably the best bet right now.
I'm British. We don't have the accent American's think we do. We're far more scummy and swear far more. Proudly working class, and proudly unpretentious.
Gaming is very different. Losing a battle with DRM on gaming does not mean losing it on the web is a certainty. People can still choose DRMless games, and GOG is still going so it's not a lost battle.
I know IE5 and IE8 are the same browser, I'm saying that company support decisions are made on market share and revenue. Any browser over x% is a supported browser. Over y%, it's a partially supported browser. We need to make Firefox a supported browser through market share.
A retail website will not implement something that will cost them traffic, because they'll lose more than they gain. My biggest concern is the first movers will be the streaming giants, and it's probably a case, that people need to take a stand here, and cancel subscriptions if they get blocked, but it won't even be coded if it costs more than it gains. They aren't going to sacrifice 10% of their revenues, if they don't gain more. This project will fail if no website supports it. The mission is to ensure websites don't support it and it dies. If Chrome market share dies in the process, awesome.
Waiting for government to act is a recipe for disaster. Governments react to angry people.
I am under no illusion the challenge we face, but I ain't going to roll over, I will keep pushing. Give up if you want, but telling everyone to give up and you choose to become a stooge of the oppressors.
DRM in games exists because their market accepts that. There is no real opposition. They already shed the people that cared about that. They can make more money from the DRM and extra stuff. This isn't clear in browsers.
As for AAA, it's dead to many, and indie game dev is getting stronger and stronger.
It is irrelevant to the point. The point is companies won't implement webDRM if their firefox userbase is too big and it's going to cost them money and users. If Firefox is used by 10% of users, the decision to implement it would potentially cost 10% revenue.
I'm highlighting how companies make these decisions and how this can kill WEI.
Based on your the start of your post, I find it very hard to believe you actually use Firefox.
One of those: "Firefox is sooooo bad, but trust me, I use it".
The war isn't lost, and we need to get everyone using Firefox, it just seems that you are contributing to Google's mission. It's a bit like saying "as a Ukrainian, we are already lost, let's give up". "No, thanks, we won't". We gonna kill this thing like AMP.
It makes it more expensive to implement the DRM. Companies always consider things in terms of return on investment. If implmenting it gains x, but loses y% share of users, they will weigh it up, the more %ge of users on Firefox, the more it will cost and the less likely companies are to roll this out.
It will because companies generally support anything above 5% otherwise they're damaging revenue. Everyone needs to move to FF ASAP and don't look back. Get all your friends and family on firefox.
Incorrect. Some companies supported IE5 when we had IE8 because market share was greater than 5%. We need to get Firefox to above 5%, and keep going to 10% and 15% as a real middle finger to say, DON'T EVEN TRY OR YOU WILL LOSE MONEY!
It isn't just about ads. It us about denying access to a service. This could happen for more than ad blocking. Ads is probably an excuse, but forcing people to use a particular software for access is the opposite of a free web.
Google tried to exert control on the internet with web manifest v3 and now again here. Letting google dictate web standards is a mistake. Using Firefox shows companies they need to support more than chrome.
It won't check people are a real user, only that they are using the enforced software. Many bot farms will use the correct software. One was recently found in Ukraine and it had shed loads of sims and hardware. They will easily meet and pass the tests.
Hello fellow Firefox lifer. It's been awesome!