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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 [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 181 points 1 year ago (33 children)

Inb4 you can only browse the internet with Chromium.

[–] [email protected] 154 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (24 children)

Well, the engineers say it themselves: nothing would prevent websites developers to prevent access from browsers that do not support this "Web DRM".

My biggest fear though is that it becomes a standard which all browsers will have to support to stay relevant. And with Google building the engine used by the vast majority of browsers, they can force this upon other browser engines (ie. Safari and Firefox).

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Google will just say that pages with DRM will rank higher in their search and it's all done.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's time to fork the community internet off the corporate one. Set up our own DRM-free sites and our own search engines, run by open source software. With blackjack and hookers.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We kinda have the small web (Gemini & Gopher), but it is a different, much simpler format than html (Gopher is literally plaintext)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I remember gopher but I haven't used it for about 30 years. Does anyone still use that?

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