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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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[–] HurlingDurling@lemm.ee 140 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Fuck DRMs and fuck these turds

And they went ahead and blocked comments now - "An owner of this repository has limited the ability to comment to users that have contributed to this repository in the past."

Fucking cowards

EDIT: I went ahead and reported the distro as malware. Also, it feels like the internet is about to split in a open internet (basically just like tor) and a corporate internet where if you don't pay the big tech you can't access anything.

[–] Hextic@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Welp, time for Internet2.

[–] HurlingDurling@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Internet 4.0 actually

[–] Beliriel@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What are the 3 internets?

Original open internet mainly for military and university use?
AOL eternal September? (internet goes public)
Web 2.0 is actually the third iteration because user created content takes off?

[–] HurlingDurling@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Because we are basically now in web 3.0, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web3

[–] sLLiK@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Given how much I miss earlier versions of the internet, when almost all content was created and maintained by early-adopting pioneers, I would personally encourage a clear split from site-powered corporate shenanigans.

Mountains of objective, factual resources have found themselves drowned out of public mindshare by an endless firehose of intellectual junk food produced by SEOs, bots, AIs, and anyone else on the hunt for their daily clicks. I have trouble even finding good examples anymore thanks to today's endlessly-manipulatable search algorithms.