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Google engineers want to introduce DRMs for web pages, making ad-blocking near-impossible in the browser (github.com)
submitted 3 years ago by 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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[–] 9 points 3 years ago (6 children)

Wouldn't spoofing work? Like, if the browser just sends "yes, no extensions, adblock, blah blah" then how would the attestation server know if that's true? Or does it require signed binaries, or some special hardware?

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  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago

    That is conveniently left out of the speck. Attestation server may require signed binary on a client system, it may require whatever it wants really, because why not? It's a website who decides to trust attestation server or not.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Depends on if they used cryptographic signatures. Those would be impossible to spoof because any change in the client would change the hash completely.

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  • [–] 16 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Google silently shipping signed chrome executables soon...

    And then people wonder why non chromium browsers are important

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Chromium is cancer.

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