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Google’s Plan To DRM The Web Goes Against Everything Google Once Stood For (mastodon.ie)
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Google’s Plan To DRM The Web Goes Against Everything Google Once Stood For

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/08/02/googles-plan-to-drm-the-web-goes-against-everything-google-once-stood-for/

@technology #technoloy #google #wei

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I've been on Firefox for years. Was never much of a problem, but lately there's more and more sites that require a Chromium-based browser. Some of them quite crucial. A list from experience:

  1. My bank's mortgage page
  2. Microsoft Teams - only supports Chrome, safari and edge on MacOs.
  3. Microsoft Office - has weird quirks on MacOs
  4. The new Adobe Express, requires Chrome or Edge
  5. Google Meet - after years google still only supports Chromium-based browsers if you wish to use video effects
  6. Microsoft's new video editing thing
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

It's not uncommon for such sites to work fine in Firefox if you just add a user agent switcher addon, so that is worth trying (can be limited to specific sites so you advertise Firefox usage for others).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

AFAIK Netflix limits resolution on every browser but Edge

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

See this kind of shit is why I pirate, not because I can't afford to pay $10 a month. When the $10 for a lot of content becomes $10 per month per piece of media you like, and you can't watch it on your platform of choice, and you can't watch it on a flight without paying more or not at all, this makes the $5 per month I pay for a VPN sound like a far better service.

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

is that true? and why would it be?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's true. Edge is the only browser with 4K support. They claim it's due to improved HTML5 support, but who knows really. I suspect their content delivery network uses some kind of Microsoft proprietary compression or somesuch. I know old Netflix was Silverlight-based due to their DRM.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They use an Edge-exclusive DRM for 4K video on the web. You can just download the Netflix app from the Microsoft Store instead.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yep, I'm aware. I was just answering the person above me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Installing an app also makes it able to collect much more information than constrained in a proper web browser.

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

Ok, I got it wrong guys

Chrome has won

Let's all go home, install a Chromium-based spyware-laced browser and bow down to our Google overlords.