What is DRM and why is Chrome doing a bad thing here? - eviltoast

I think I understand why this is bad, but I am not confident in my technical understanding of the mechanics here. Will appreciate an explainer :)

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/978408

looks like rendering adblockers extensions obsolete with manifest-v3 was not enough so now they try to implement DRM into the browser giving the ability to any website to refuse traffic to you if you don’t run a complaint browser ( cough…firefox )

here is an article in hacker news since i’m sure they can explain this to you better than i.

and also some github docs

  • AlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    You can put aside the tech side for a minute and reflect on how dangerous the following idea is:

    “If you don’t have anything to hide, then it should be perfectly okay for you to let us put software limitations on your own hardware that you purchased with your own money so that we can decide what you can and cannot do with it, but that shouldn’t bother you as you normally wouldn’t do stuff with it that we deem illegal anyway, and if you don’t agree with us then you’re just a criminal.”

    Because that is essentially what they’re telling you.