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

  • neo (he/him)A
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    1 year ago

    Google basically made it so that it takes a large company to compete with all the “”“web features”“” that they have, so good luck with that.

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      1 year ago

      True, what we truly need and have the force to get behind with is an Alternate Internet, an Alternet of sorts. Something like Gopher, or Gemini.

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        1 year ago

        I like what gemini is trying to accomplish but I think we need something closer to what the web WAS.