tetchy afJul 23, 2023

Stop using Chrome as your daily driver.

Google proposed adding DRM to Chrome, which will be used to stop ad blockers, privacy tools, password plugins, accessibility/reader modes.

The only way to stop Google’s Chrome from wrecking the internet like Internet Explorer did for many year is to switch to a NOT chromium-based browser as soon as possible for your day to day. You’ve got Safari and Firefox as your choices.

I know you’ll have to use Chrome sometimes because it’s already happening.

Show threadkay barkbark
@af my work forces me to use chrome because we pay for Micro$ofts fucking terrible business suite and it does't work in anything except Edge and Chrome. My level of rage is incomprehensible.
Jul 24, 2023 at 3:35amWeb
Show threadRichard TurnerJul 30, 2023

@kay_kidoutai @af Firefox has a web compatibility team that always wants to hear about breakages like this. They can either add info to, or create, bug reports for Firefox or engage with (nag) the website author to switch to cross-browser standards.

Office apps - Word, Excel, etc. - seem to work fine for me using Firefox. I tend not to need the more esoteric MS webapps though.

Show threadkay barkbarkJul 31, 2023
@zygous @af I will definitely file a report to them on monday. What blows my mind is that its just U2F, which is a cross browser standard! It just doesn't work. Seems like pure laziness on M$ part.
Show threadkay barkbarkJul 31, 2023

@zygous @af
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/authentication/fido2-compatibility#supported-browsers

zero support for anything but chrome on Linux. I don't even understand how you do that

Browser support of FIDO2 passwordless authentication - Microsoft Entra

Browsers and operating system combinations support FIDO2 passwordless authentication for apps using Azure Active Directory

Show threadRichard TurnerJul 31, 2023
@kay_kidoutai @af Certainly looks like they’re actively preventing auth working on Linux. Probably Chrome is supported so that ChromeOS works (since that’s Linux). I expect this isn’t technical, but political 😡