CHROME (google) is planing to implement DRM (kinda) into their browser

mr_right@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com – 2563 points –

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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100% agree. The few times I have to turn off uBlock because it is breaking some obscure website it is always an awful experience. Auto-playing videos, ads taking up half the screen, and those annoying as fuck cookie banners. I can't imagine using the internet without an ad/cookie blocker. I accidentally turned it off on Lemmy for a while and it was the only site that I didn't immediately notice.

It's always nice when you look at uBlock Origin and it says

connected: 1 out of 1

19/19 right here on lemmy.ca

Huh? When I visit lemmy.ca, it also shows me 1/1

Opening the debug console shows that it connects to other lemmies, like the originating one here, lemmy.dbzer0.com.

Yeah okay, that makes sense. Federated network with dozens of different servers and all that