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.

  • Amju Wolf@pawb.social
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    1 year ago

    Democracy is an illusion, especially in places like the US. There are so many abstraction layers that even if you “win” you are really poorly represented.

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      1 year ago

      “Democ­ra­cy is the worst form of gov­ern­ment, except for all the oth­ers.”

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        1 year ago

        That’s if you have a democracy that even remotely works. Which in the US does not. Hell, it’s fragile even in most EU countries.

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          1 year ago

          FPTP is inherently less stable that other voting systems. The more parties involved having to compromise, the more stable. Two parties ends up with red vs blue. Literally. And it’s terrible.

          I think we in the UK will escape it before the US.