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Your choice of browser matters — Google's Web DRM and the open internet

https://grafcube.codeberg.page/blog/2023/08/06/web-drm-api.html

I wrote this blog post to inform the people I know who aren't as tech savvy or otherwise don't put any thought into their choice of browser. Another goal is to help get enough awareness on the topic and make sure it fails.

@opensource @privacy #webintegrityapi #WEI #google #mozilla #chrome #firefox #chromium #foss #opensource #OpenWeb #privacy #drm #nodrm #drmfree #freesoftware #browser

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I've been using Firefox as my primary on both desktop and mobile for about 6 years now, and it's usually pretty great. Desktop rarely has problems. On mobile there are a good number of sites with issues though, because devs don't usually test against it as has had a low number of users. But hopefully this revitalized movement to switch will make them have to care. And that said, 99% of the time these sites are still mostly usable, unless the broken thing is important like say a login screen 😅

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

@ZephyrXero Interesting. I've personally never had any problems on Android. I use Iceraven since it has more extensions and the only issue so far has been that initial load is often slow (because of the extensions I use).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] Dotdev 8 points 1 year ago

Fork of android firefox

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

A fork of firefox with more extensions available than the standard mobile firefox app.

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

I have been using fennec and yeah the load is slow only when i have all the extentions enabled but overall a great browser

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