Google engineers want to introduce DRMs for web pages, making ad-blocking near-impossible in the browser - eviltoast

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.

  • floofloof@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    It’s time to fork the community internet off the corporate one. Set up our own DRM-free sites and our own search engines, run by open source software. With blackjack and hookers.

    • KSP Atlas@sopuli.xyz
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      1 year ago

      We kinda have the small web (Gemini & Gopher), but it is a different, much simpler format than html (Gopher is literally plaintext)

      • floofloof@lemmy.ca
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        1 year ago

        I remember gopher but I haven’t used it for about 30 years. Does anyone still use that?