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mr_right Jul 22, 2023

CHROME (google) is plan to implement DRM (kinda) into their browser

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/978408

CHROME (google) is plan to implement DRM (kinda) into their browser - Divisions by zero

looks like rendering adblockers extensions obsolete with manifest-v3 was not enough so now they try to implement DRM into the browser giving the ability to any website to refuse traffic to you if you don’t run a complaint browser ( cough…firefox ) here is an article in hacker news [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36817305] since i’m sure they can explain this to you better than i. and also some github [https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/blob/main/explainer.md] docs

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Silverseren Jul 22, 2023

I mean, I'm using Chrome right now, but if they actually implement this and my ad blocker stops working, I'm switching to Opera or something.

Do they really expect to not lose browser users with this move?

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CookieJarObserver Jul 22, 2023

All chromium Browser are effected.

Firefox is the way.

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z3rOR0ne Jul 23, 2023

I’d like to believe this, and I use Librewolf as my daily driver, so yeah, Firefox woo and all that. But Google is one of Mozilla’s primary funders…how long before y’know, they tell Mozilla to cut that whole Manifest v2 shit out…?

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Holzkohlen Jul 23, 2023

The US should break apart huge companies like google. Google in particular has WAY more power to shape the internet than any one company should have. Death to google!

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z3rOR0ne

I agree on the first part, disagree on the second. I don’t want google to die, they have created some amazing products. I do want Google to be broken up though and for the various entities created from that to rethink about how to monetize the web. It simply can’t only be advertisements and harvesting their data.