Mozilla opposes Web Integrity API proposal - eviltoast
  • nik282000@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Average users view the web raw, this will go totally unnoticed by >90% of users. If web-drm becomes a thing then it will be easy enough to block those sites and add them to the list of media that is morally acceptable to pirate.

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      Is there any reason Firefox or anyone else can’t just draw blank elements over the ads to block them on a separate layer? That way the site still thinks ads are being displayed. Kind of like the browser internal version of cutting out sticky notes and pasting them over your screen to cover the ads.

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        Firefox could get litigated for ad fraud and these trusted 3rd parties could block firefox from accessing the sites. It won’t work.

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          Hey hacktivists who claim to oppose the government’s protection of big tech and also claim they aren’t afraid to break cybercrime law to do it, I think you’ve found your next mission! Make a firefox fork or unauthorized plugin that doesn’t give a shit about ad fraud and distribute the source code underground! Join the ranks of YouTube-DL!

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          Time to fly the Jolly Roger and find ways to get entire websites, not just movies and TV shows, off the high seas and past the blockade. Drink up, me hearties, yo ho!