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This has slid under the radar of mainstream news sites but Google Chrome now has a proposal for DRM for the web. It’s basically a way for a website to ask a browser it’s running on a trusted browser or device.
It will help detect & prevent bot traffic or scrapers. But will also enable sites to detect & block ad blockers as well. A final nail in the coffin of the Open Web that made Google a trillion dollar company.
It's been spotted and I hope that the people proposing this are just clueless rather than malicious.
Any site which adopts this will find their traffic dropping through the floor. If they can survive that then the don't need our attention in the first place.
@carnage4life or it's too technical for them to understand.
My fear is this goes through and websites deny any browser that doesn't support this and Firefox is forced to.
@carnage4life You're spreading misinformation.
On the ad-blocker front, interfering with extensions is a clear non-goal: https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/blob/main/explainer.md#non-goals
I also don't see how this is "DRM for the web"
@Yoav @carnage4life You're going to need something stronger that that. Lots of things started out with good intentions and were later used to suppress user agency. Tried running your own mail server lately?
@williamgunn @carnage4life I'm not saying this proposal is necessarily good. I'm just saying it's neither DRM nor anti ad blockers
@Yoav I suppose it's not surprising that you're having trouble seeing what the issue is, given it seems like anyone with half a clue left Google ages ago.
Are you worried that if you lose your job at Google, you wouldn't be able to pass any interviews at any other places where the management has slightly more of a clue of what they're doing?
@carnage4life Embrace. Extend. Extinguish. #Google have learnt from the #Microsoft scum that came before them.