(To everyone saying “this is just an enterprise policy”: Look at the conversations in the bugs.

Somebody said, to the Chromium team, schools are using Google Forms for testing, and the kids can see the right answers in the forms, so to address that, we want to prevent students from reading source code.

And without an ounce of pushback, without so much as a nod in the direction that this might not be the right solution to this problem, the Chromium team said yes.)

  • @pancake
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    122 years ago

    I see a pattern here that society is starting to assume that a webpage can only be browsed with a web browser. A judge even decided that accessing data you should not see in a webpage is illegal, so I guess you aren’t supposed to do anything with HTML other than view it in a browser…