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Google is prototyping a DRM system for websites in Chromium (github.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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the API is called Web Environment Integrity, and it’s a way to kill ad blockers first and a Google ecosystem lock-in mechanism second, with no other practical use case I can find

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

the authors of this paper need never to work in tech ever again

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

all four of the authors are software engineers

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

to paraphrase many of the issues on this repo, they need to not