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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

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Can someone please ELI5 this?

[–] TheQuantumPhysicist 36 points 1 year ago (7 children)

First they established a new standard for extensions that makes it harder for adblockers to work in chrome, that's manifest v3.

And now they want establish cryptographic verification of the environment so that you can't have a custom environment in your browser, like having adblockers. Similar to how DRM works.

As long as average Joe uses chrome, we're doomed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is it possible to circumvent by running two environments and reporting only one?

[–] TheQuantumPhysicist 1 points 1 year ago

It's still a proposal. Nothing concrete yet. But from the looks of it, you can't play such games since it's cryptographically verified.

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