NilsGoogle is ruining the entire web
daniskarmaI can’t wait to have to download a crack for my browser so a website thinks that my browser is using wei and no-adblock.
PsythikJust use Firefox. I don’t understand why people are so hell-bent on using a Chromium-based browser.
Honestly, I’ve just switched from Brave to Firefox after trying it awhile ago and I can’t even begin to say how much I hate it. Despite turning off settings to open new tabs, every website I open browsing on mobile opens a new tab, so before I know it I have 27 tabs open, the desktop version is clunky, I had to adjust a ton of settings to stop it from downloading in the background every file I just wanted to view or print, and it won’t even let me print or save as pdf a lot of things, so I have to open Chrome or Brave to do that stuff anyway. I feel like grandma trying to learn to text using it, but for now I’m going to press on because the ad blocking works better than Brave and I like some of the extra features and plugins.
Despite turning off settings to open new tabs, every website I open browsing on mobile opens a new tab That shouldn’t happen, I’ve just set Homepage > Opening screen to last tab and when I open firefox it defaults to the last tab that I was on before exiting the browser I had to adjust a ton of settings to stop it from downloading in the background every file I just wanted to view or print Iirc its just setting browser.download.open_pdf_attachments_inline to true at about:config
MalReynoldsFair enough, you have an opinion, that firefox is wrong in everything it does, it’s not valid, but you need to learn the defaults. Be well.
Fair enough, you have an opinion, that firefox is wrong in everything it does
That’s not what they are saying though. A lot of this is configurable for a reason.
but you need to learn the defaults
I don’t think that they do. They have see. They don’t like the defaults and it’s their right to change them. That’s the whole point of configurable FOSS ffs.
AnUnusualRelicI had to adjust a ton of settings to stop it from downloading in the background every file I just wanted to view or print,
Well, you can’t view or print a file without downloading it.
Give Vivaldi a try, it’s a chromium fork but with a strong focus on privacy.
kaduUntil Netflix decides you can only watch high resolution content via Chrome passing the DRM check.
Or your banking website does the same. Or YouTube. Or PayPal. And so on.
Though, honestly, nobody so far came up with any good explanations as to how this DRM scheme inside a browser would truly prevent adblocking and screen recording - my browser hasn’t got higher privileges than my admin user account.
HeavenAndHellI mean, you can just literally read the Google DRM github repo and it’ll tell you everything you need to know about how bad this is for the free internet.
you can already only watch netflix hdr content on edge.
Still Chromium based
That has nothing to do with Chromium, but Edge being the only browser integrated into your system enough to use the DRM of your chipset.
Yes, and how many people bother to do that when other means are so much easier even if you pay for Netflix…
On edge and Piracy, you mean. ;)
I don’t, myself, use Edge.
I also don’t do piracy, but downloading Edge sure looks less convenientn every day…
my browser hasn’t got higher privileges than my admin user account
They’ll fix that. The endgame might very well be you can only run a trusted browser, safely checked by your OS, itself trusted, running on fully signed code from a trusted source, started on a trusted motherboard/CPU, with hardware lockdown that would only boot trusted kernel and embed private keys so deep that you’d need a full lab to recover them, only to have them remotely disabled if anything funky seems to be happening at any point in that chain.
For now, this is fiction. For now. We already started moving that way with secureboot, opaque UEFI in our systems and TPM modules. The only saving grace is that they currently all have flaws.
yeah the goal is that the browser verifies the OS and itself and reports back that it’s running in a “secure” (ie, not user controlled) environment
My computer my control fuckers.
I’ll stop using 99% of the internet. I don’t give a fucking shit.
Vudu, Hulu, and I’m sure others already prevent Hdx+ content unless it’s through chrome or Microsoft’s whatever-it-is.
Good thing I sail the high seas. Fuck those companies.
Because the browser choice has nothing to do with what Google is trying to achieve with the DRM thing.
1984A few of us sitting and using Firefox while Google is suggesting being able to control what computer you use, what software is installed, what plugins you are allowed to have?
This is a very big threat not solved by using Firefox.
They want ChromeOS…on literally everything.