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.

  • ExFed@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Momentum. And it’s likely most people won’t be about to tell, or regularly run comparisons to find out for themselves. Theres enough value added to Chrome that people kind of assume it’s “the best” … It took me years to convince my boss to switch, but the one thing that did it for him was just that the PDF viewer is better in Firefox.

    People have weird preferences that don’t always line up with what software developers expect.