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Google engineers want to introduce DRMs for web pages, making ad-blocking near-impossible in the browser (github.com)

submitted 1 year ago by BlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.com 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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[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

It got better years ago. I stopped using it around the late 00's myself because it was consuming all of my RAM. But I started using it again about 5 years ago and it's better than chrome now.

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[–] rozno@roznotech.xyz 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I bailed from Firefox for about a year after they added the godawful Firefox button (4.0 maybe?); then I got fed up with Chrome and by that point there was an extension to remove the Firefox button

[–] CallumWells@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's the Firefox button? I don't use any extension to remove it, but I also don't see any button tied to FF itself that I need to remove.

[–] rozno@roznotech.xyz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh it's long dead now; this is what it looked like back then though

[–] CallumWells@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the explanation

[–] Kiosade@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

I may have to give it another try then!