jwzOct 4, 2024

Mozilla's CEO doubles down on them being an advertising company now.

tl;dr: "LOL get fucked"

They've decided who their customers are, and it's not you, it's people who build and invest in surveillance advertising networks. But in a "respectful" way....
https://jwz.org/b/ykaO

Mozilla's CEO doubles down on them being an advertising company now

tl;dr: "LOL get fucked" They've decided who their customers are, and it's not you, it's people who build and invest in surveillance advertising networks. But in a "respectful" way. "Improving online advertising through product and infrastructure." We know that not everyone in our community will embrace our entrance into this market. Gee, ya think? In parallel to our existing consumer ...

Show threadAndreas K

@jwz And that solves the Encrypted Media Extensions issue how?

https://blog.samuelmaddock.com/posts/the-end-of-indie-web-browsers/

Building a better web browser (engine)? Hard but doable.

Building a web browser that is competitive in the mainstream (aka can play netflix & co), dream on.

The End of Indie Web Browsers: You Can (Not) Compete

In 2017, the body responsible for standardizing web browser technologies, W3C, introduced Encrypted Media Extensions (EME)—thus bringing with it the end of competitive indie web browsers. No longer is it possible to build your own web browser capable of consuming some of the most popular content on the web. Websites like Netflix, Hulu, HBO, and others require copyright content protection which is only accessible through browser vendors who have license agreements with large corporations.

Oct 4, 2024 at 9:59amWeb
Show threadjwzOct 4, 2024
@yacc143 Try to imagine how many shits I give as to whether my web browser can play Netflix. Try.
Show threadAndreas KOct 4, 2024

@jwz Try how you'll gain a mainstream critical mass (so that websites simply don't lock you out, as happens occasionally with Firefox already), with a browser that does not have the relevant EME CDM modules.

Oops, so yes, you and me care about watching netflix on our laptops not very much, 🤷 About 99% of the websites do not care very much about you and me.

(OTOH, what happens when you cannot watch videos for your uni classes, because of that? Right, Manifest V3 Chrome it is for the moment.)

Show threadjwzOct 4, 2024
@yacc143 Also try to imagine how much I care about the angry opinions of strangers. *plonk*