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

  • whoareu
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    1 year ago

    By just changing user agent string you can make the site work on Firefox too!

    • El Barto@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      True for many cases. But I was referring to cases in which the site really acts out because it’s optimized for Chrome.