looks like rendering adblockers extensions obsolete with manifest-v3 was not enough so now they try to implement DRM into the browser giving the ability to any website to refuse traffic to you if you don’t run a complaint browser ( cough…firefox )
here is an article in hacker news since i’m sure they can explain this to you better than i.
I think the point is if website operators start supporting this you might not have a choice but to use Chrome, if you want to browse any reasonably popular web site.
Then I will stop browsing them? I stopped using Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit quite easily. I can do it with others if they’re going to go down this route.
Bank sites don’t necessarily need to want to block ads to implement something like this. They will just see the headlines that say “this is more secure” and that will be enough for them to buy in to it.
Exactly. If this comes to pass, you’re still free to run an “unattested” browser if you want, but web sites are going to require it “for security” to make sure you are using an “untampered” with browser (I.e. no blocking ads)
If we break their fingers in all EU countrys, yours won’t even have to act… Like we could technically ban all website and browsers doing that from the entire market for this practice…
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I think the point is if website operators start supporting this you might not have a choice but to use Chrome, if you want to browse any reasonably popular web site.
Then I will stop browsing them? I stopped using Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit quite easily. I can do it with others if they’re going to go down this route.
Until they hit something you need if you want to function in the modern world.
Internet Explorer tried real hard to do that. Pages were literally built only to run “properly” in IE.
Curious what round 2 would look like.
Like what? Bank websites don’t really use ads. And I don’t use LinkedIn.
Bank sites don’t necessarily need to want to block ads to implement something like this. They will just see the headlines that say “this is more secure” and that will be enough for them to buy in to it.
ouch that would be painful
Exactly. If this comes to pass, you’re still free to run an “unattested” browser if you want, but web sites are going to require it “for security” to make sure you are using an “untampered” with browser (I.e. no blocking ads)
I will stop using any websites that try to do that.
If they do that they get chainsaw massacred by Antitrust Authoritys all over the world. And absolutely rightfully so.
Except in the US. We don’t enforce those laws here.
If we break their fingers in all EU countrys, yours won’t even have to act… Like we could technically ban all website and browsers doing that from the entire market for this practice…
I don’t think they would like us to do so…