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

  • kszeslaw@szmer.infoEnglish
    35·
    1 year ago

    Yeah, sure, it’s always the same story:

    1. Chrome adds a shitty anti-user “feature”
    2. Firefox users say “no come to firefox we don’t have that!”
    3. 3 months pass
    4. Firefox adds the same “feature” because it’s the standard now!!

    I’m a Firefox user myself but I really hope something new comes along that actually cares about its users

    • Zetaphor@zemmy.ccEnglish
      72·
      1 year ago

      You’re saying this like Firefox is adding the shitty standard because they want to, and not because Google used their monopoly to force adoption of the shitty standard forcing Firefox to follow suit if they don’t want their users to have a broken experience.

      If Google introduces a shitty standard to YouTube and Firefox doesn’t adopt it, do you honestly think users are going to care or understand and blame Google? No, they’ll get pissed because they think Firefox broke YouTube and they’ll move to Chrome.

      This exact situation played out with shadow DOM, Google implemented it into YouTube while it was still a draft standard, so all non-Chrome browsers ran worse because they had to use a polyfill.

      That is why we’re telling people to stop using Chromium. If they didn’t have this monopoly none of this would be possible. Mozilla has some issues as an organization, but do honestly you think the better choice is letting an advertising company decide how the web works?

        • Zetaphor@zemmy.ccEnglish
          19·
          1 year ago

          What are the issues I have with Mozilla? They’re floundering with little direction and seemingly incompetent management.

          They laid off a bunch of their key engineers while they continue to increase the CEO’s compensation. They keep making half baked decisions with regards to features and marketing that don’t seem conducive to their core offering, like the Pocket integration. They completely killed PWA integration, that only works now with an extension and third party software. They retired BrowserID. They orphaned Thunderbird. There’s probably more I’m forgetting.

          • faintedheart@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            1 year ago

            Thanks for explaining. I wasn’t updated with all of these. I just use their browser. And thought they are some nice company.

            • Zetaphor@zemmy.ccEnglish
              9·
              1 year ago

              No for-profit is nice, but they are the lesser shit of the two choices we have. Remember that the Mozilla Corporation is a for-profit, the Mozilla Organization is a non-profit. There is a clear conflict of interest between those two entities.

              I do and will continue to use their browser because it’s the only choice I have if I want to stand by my principle of supporting a free and open web.