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Google engineers want to introduce DRMs for web pages, making ad-blocking near-impossible in the browser (github.com)

submitted 1 year ago by BlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.com to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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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.

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[–] Teodomo@lemmy.world 100 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (22 children)

What's your alternative?

EDIT: Oh I just found in the profile. It's Brave. I used it for half a year before I got tired of the crypto ads sneaking into my home page's links no matter how many times I deleted them and of some other stuff. I prefer Firefox's UI. Also I don't expect any browser to be 100% ethical but Brave is below Firefox in that list for me

[+] Engywuck@lemmy.ml -102 points 1 year ago (12 children)

It doesn't matter and it's irrelevant here. I just despise Mozilla and their false morality. Use whatever you want.

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago (6 children)

So you'll rather give in to blatant corporate greed?

What kind of Alt-Right logic is this?

[+] Engywuck@lemmy.ml -44 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I didn't know I was so evil that I'm doing the world a worse place just because I prefer a different browser. And I'm ideologically far form alt-right, btw.

OTOH, talking about corporate greed:

[–] tryptaminev@feddit.de 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

that is a funny graph. Even assuming the data is true, it deliberately missrepresents market share as usage. Which pretty much neglects the fact hat maybe a person or two and a device with a browser or two have entered the market since then.

Also it does not have any information on source of the data, methodology, definition of the terms etc. So it is pretty much worthless as an argument.

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