I feel like I've been forced to switch a lot of my default applications lately based on shitty decisions from tone deaf companies. I guess I'm going to move from Brave to Firefox finally.
this post was submitted on 25 Jul 2023
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Made the switch recently myself and can never look back. Being able to install custom add-ons on mobile is a huge plus to me
Why did you chose Brave to begin with? Serious question, not being snarky. I tried it for a day and it just didn't compete with Firefox + uBlock Origin in any meaningful way. I don't see the appeal of bundling advanced security and filtering tools with the browser, it's better if they're separate entities, keeps everyone honest.
I've taught multiple people in my life to use brave. The vast majority of end users simply can't be bothered to install a plugin or understand how to manage it when a site breaks. Brave makes it just a little more intuitive for them and means less IT calls for me. Firefox with ublock is what I personally use. Brave is what my family uses.
Brave is just as likely to "break" a site as uBO, what do they do then?
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Moving browsers used to be moved the webpages now....it's a massive deal now.
Extremely common Firefox W
If this DRM can force you to use Chromium to display a webpage or content, that would be the most anticompetitive thing in recent times, and would absolutely not fly.
That's why they want to make it a web standard, so they can just blame Firefox and others for not following the standard and avoid EU fines.
That's what Microsoft did with their office document standard.
Yeah, the sad thing here is that if Apple comply, it will basically become a standard and there's nothing that Firefox or anything else can do about it. If they can get it on iPhone, it's game over. Half the web will be blocked unless you agree to see adverts.
If they can get it on iPhone, it's game over.
While this is true, I struggle to understand how Apple would stand to gain from implementing this unless it had already become a widespread standard. It's also an opportunity for more privacy focused marketing if they oppose it, just like they do with government attempts to force them to implement backdoors into iOS.
Yeah, they already dont bother implementing a bunch of actual standards. I don't see what they would get out of this since their ad network is very limited
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Good thing Google is not a recognized standards body
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Gj mozilla
Can someone explain to me the google API and DRM situation in stupid people terms? I’m stupidly tech illiterate but I know that this is a big deal and I would like to understand
Sure thing. With this current proposal, when you visit a website, the site asks your browser if you're willing to display it as intended, basically with all and any adverts. If the answer is no, then you can't see the content, if the answer is yes, then you're likely using Chrome or a Chromium based browser and Google can guarantee more ad impressions, because they're first and foremost an advert selling company.
I may not be 100% right, as I haven't looked at it in detail, but I think it's even a bit more than that. Since the way that's proven is by the browser vendor signing the request (I assume with an HTTP header or something), you could also verify it's from a specific vendor. So even if Mozilla says, yes, we'll display your ads, a website could still lock down to Chrome. It would probably also significantly hamper new browsers, and browsers with a security/anti-ad focus, as they won't be recognised by major websites that use the new protocol until they have market share, which they won't get if they don't have access to major websites.
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I bet you heard about safetynet on android devices. It is a service that checks if you run a genuine licensed not-modified version of android. If not - app developer can just restrict you access to the app. It is mostly used by banking apps, but there're many examples of not security critical apps utilize this.
Google wants to do the same but for browsers and websites. If you run firefox or modified chrome or use adblocks: youtube, twitter, etc. would be able to detect it and can restrict access to the website.
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I hope EU steps in this time too
They try to present it as "detecting abuse", but it's literally just "allow servers to block non-verified browers"(in other words google blocking access to their services for non-chrome users(the people proposing it work for google)).
And as always these types of asshats always shit all over anyone using accessbility tools(or don't even consider them in the first place, which amounts to the same thing).
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If this goes through. Will Google become a browser monopoly and (hopefully) get sued
Apple already implemented something similar on safari that flew under the radar, so the browser/mobile duopoly cartel is still working.
Have slowly been switching to Firefox for a couple of months, but the DRM proposal has gotten me to fully switch.
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Fucking US and all their shitty companies. literally a big FU
same feel man: too much american shitty companies (especilaly software companies)
Based and actual freedom pilled
I still don't get where this proposal originated. It looks like a random user, what's their connection to Google and why do we believe it's even under consideration by the organisation?
Also, <3 ff
No organisations put things through in giant blazing neon letters. One employee quietly pushes a bit, another a different bit and ten bits later we're all like, WTF?
Google has been trying to ensure they can serve everyone ads for a while. There's a reason the author of uBlock clearly states that the Chrome version isn't as good.
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That's as true as it is irrelevant. I don't think I've heard anyone say chrome isn't a great browser or chromium isn't good - it's the control Google has over it that everyone has a problem with
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