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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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[–] funkless@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

if it's baked into the browser - then that's all sites

pretty funny though that maybe all those people in the 80s / early 90s were right - the internet is just a passing fad, but only because they ruined it with ads.

[–] xmax3@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

As a Web developer, it sickens me to see the Internet and the Web head this way. What brought me to it is its openness and ease to access informative contents. Big tech and shareholders don't care about what we value on the internet. The only thing that matters for them is that infinite growth and we all know how well it's going for the earth with that way of seeing things...