Google engineers want to introduce DRMs for web pages, making ad-blocking near-impossible in the browser
Google engineers want to introduce DRMs for web pages, making ad-blocking near-impossible in the browser
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blackeco.com/post/25574
And since you won't be able to modify web pages, it will also mean the end of customization, either for looks (ie. DarkReader, Stylus), conveniance (ie. Tampermonkey) or accessibility.
The community feedback is... interesting to say the least.
It does seem that using Chrome (or Chrome based browsers) is just going to going to perpetuate this. Firefox has never been more important IMHO.
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You should absolutely have web environment integrity. Your browser should not allow the website to do things that you don't approve of, so the integrity of your computer can be ensured.
Wait, that's not what they mean, is it? Oh no … 🙄
Yea, I feel like Google has this a bit backwards. As always, I like to turn the metaphor on it's head. You're not visiting a website, you're inviting a website. You're allowing the website to use your system resources, bandwidth, CPU cycles, etc. And what you do with your own system is none of the websites business. They can protect their business model on the server side, if they need to. But maybe they just need better business models.
Boosting because this is how we should see websites. You dont visit them you download them. Websites are vampires that must be invited inside to use your system's resources to do whatever it does.
@frustbox
Time to go all in on Gemini, or something like it?
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