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Google engineers want to introduce DRMs for web pages, making ad-blocking near-impossible in the browser (github.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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And since you won't be able to modify web pages, it will also mean the end of customization, either for looks (ie. DarkReader, Stylus), conveniance (ie. Tampermonkey) or accessibility.

The community feedback is... interesting to say the least.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Imho, without hardware support they won't be able to keep up against the hackers. In the end it's software and it's running on hardware outside of the control of the server. There are millions of possible attacks to break/bypass this.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Problem is the effort to find a vulnerability and exploit it is often higher than the effort required to patch it. Because by its nature a browser and the server it talks to are internet connected, Google will be able to revoke keys for older exploited versions at will. As long as it’s well-engineered I think there’s a good chance they’ll be able to keep that secure.

Though I’m sure there will be some successful approaches to ad blocking etc but if something like this gains traction it could completely change the internet. If enough people are running browsers like this then sites could effectively be able to kill off competing browsers that aren’t restricted.

I think the key is to not let it happen in the first place, and boycott browsers that implement stuff like this.

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

So if we already took down Twitter, and Reddit, how do we kill Chrome?