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.

  • Araozu@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    1 year ago

    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.worldEnglish
      14·
      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.deEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      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.worldEnglish
        16·
        1 year ago

        Google silently shipping signed chrome executables soon…

        And then people wonder why non chromium browsers are important

          • hismajesty@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            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.mlEnglish
              32·
              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.