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They're not trying to kill Linux per se, it'll just be collateral damage. Only specially blessed builds of browser and OS will be allowed access to sites that use the new api. It defeats the point of the API if the user can control the behavior of the client.

Well, obviously ChromeOS will be certified as is Android (their other popular Linux). I assume OP was talking about random non-corporate Linux distro manually installed on someones PC (e.g. Arch on my Thinkpad). These won't be able to access significant chunk of the Web anymore.

>Well, obviously ChromeOS will be certified as is Android (their other popular Linux

Specifically, ChromeOS running the google-signed, untampered, OS image

Those same employees at Google have plenty of opportunity to tell their leaders this is a shitty idea, and yet here we are.