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

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blackeco.com/post/25574

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.

It does seem that using Chrome (or Chrome based browsers) is just going to going to perpetuate this. Firefox has never been more important IMHO.

  • Sanctus@kbin.social
    21·
    1 year ago

    Boosting because this is how we should see websites. You dont visit them you download them. Websites are vampires that must be invited inside to use your system’s resources to do whatever it does.