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

submitted 2 years 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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[–] diffuselight@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (3 children)

This has to be seen in context of AI - Google will offer this to companies to ‘protect their pages from being scraped’

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[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Well time learn how to jailbreak web pages now too

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[–] doge_d_aspin@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

Greed kills everything good

[–] Zeth0s@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Is these a real google plan, or just an engineer proposal on github?

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[–] lohrun@fediverse.boo 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Web 3.0 - users, kindly go fuck yourselves p.s. pay us subscription money and view lots of ads

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[–] Star@sopuli.xyz 11 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I ditched Chrome about a year ago for Edge and just recently switched to Firefox, shouldn't really be concerning as long as there are alternatives.

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[–] shades@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Can someone explain how the server is going to know whether or not the client browser is showing the ad? A stealthy browser would say, "hey yeah send that ad so I can render it to the user" and the server says, "yeah ok" and then . How is the server going to know whether the ad is displayed or not? Don't current gen adblockers not even retrieve the asset? If the asset was retrieved but not displayed, how (if even) can this be monitored?

[–] dan@lemm.ee 13 points 2 years ago (6 children)

The point of the proposal is to allow servers to be sure the software (ie browser) running on the device is what it says it is, and take away the ability to spoof what browser you’re running (which is currently fairly trivial).

So if someone makes a browser that doesn’t allow adblockers and always shows ads, the server can do things like only serve content to that browser.

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