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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.

and also some github docs

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You wouldn't have access to the websites with a non ' drm ' compatible browser

[–] CookieJarObserver 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wouldn't use websites that require that shit and would likely Report them to the Cartel Office for that practice.

Its absolutely impossible to do that to the entire internet anyway.

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

Not to the whole internet, but to important websites. I have no doubt you wouldn't use those websites, but a person who is in the fediverse is already not the average user

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah, if your work uses a website like ADP and ADP starts requiring it, you're suddenly minorly fucked

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

To be fair I only do work from a work computer, and my work computer already has a ton of shit on it I'd never use in my personal life.

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

If it became a thing, I'd keep an older machine around just for accessing stuff like that. How much is a second hand craptop these days, like $400, not nothing, but not a huge amount.

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

I've never been unable to access a site on Firefox due to DRM. There is a prompt asking to run DRM-enabled media, but that's it.

Edit: or is there something about Manifest v3 that will get Firefox blocked somehow? IDK how as I would think it would be easy to pretend to be compliant.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Click the Github link in the original post. Google has an RFC open right now about "web integrity" about ensuring users don't modify the content they see. They claim it's not to block plugins but... It's hard to think what else they could possibly be thinking of.