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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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[–] 3 points 3 years ago

to me, that's one of the biggest tragedies of our time. there are several catastrophic problems to be fixed worldwide and yet we send some of our most brilliant engineers to silicon valley to work on advertising companies

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