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[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

WEI checks if your browser and system is "genuine" and "unmodified" before letting you access any content "protected" by it, which inevitably leads to smaller and custom mods that don't fit their predetermined criteria for "genuineness" being locked out, which in turn forces you to use Google (and Microsoft and Apple, they’re in on it too) products in order to access certain content and eventually the entire internet, just as surely as it's almost completely impossible to avoid their Google Analytics malware.

And before you say "that's a ridiculous slippery slope fallacy! That'll never happen!", Logitech is already requiring you to go to a website that will only open in Chromium browsers in order to pair devices with the Logitech Unifying Receiver.