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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] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are they just copying the stuff Microsoft did back in the 90s to kill Netscape navigator? Someone should set up a website called Chrome is Evil à la Internet Explorer Is Evil.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Did setting up that website actually help?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

so I was pretty young at the time, but that site was one of my motivating factors in trying pre-Firefox Mozilla for the first time

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

No idea. But it was funny.