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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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[–] Araozu@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wouldn't spoofing work? Like, if the browser just sends "yes, no extensions, adblock, blah blah" then how would the attestation server know if that's true? Or does it require signed binaries, or some special hardware?

[–] vvvvv@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

That is conveniently left out of the speck. Attestation server may require signed binary on a client system, it may require whatever it wants really, because why not? It's a website who decides to trust attestation server or not.

[–] count_duckula@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Depends on if they used cryptographic signatures. Those would be impossible to spoof because any change in the client would change the hash completely.

[–] Araozu@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Google silently shipping signed chrome executables soon...

And then people wonder why non chromium browsers are important

[–] mihor@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Chromium is cancer.

[–] hismajesty@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nah, chromium by itself is okay. Its just google, microshit and everyone else using the chromium source to ship as much telemetry, ads, data as possible.

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

I'm pretty sure Chromium is still phoning home just as it used to for almost a decade. It's a piece of Google's garbage.