Until Netflix decides you can only watch high resolution content via Chrome passing the DRM check.
Or your banking website does the same. Or YouTube. Or PayPal. And so on.
Though, honestly, nobody so far came up with any good explanations as to how this DRM scheme inside a browser would truly prevent adblocking and screen recording - my browser hasn’t got higher privileges than my admin user account.
my browser hasn’t got higher privileges than my admin user account
They’ll fix that. The endgame might very well be you can only run a trusted browser, safely checked by your OS, itself trusted, running on fully signed code from a trusted source, started on a trusted motherboard/CPU, with hardware lockdown that would only boot trusted kernel and embed private keys so deep that you’d need a full lab to recover them, only to have them remotely disabled if anything funky seems to be happening at any point in that chain.
For now, this is fiction. For now. We already started moving that way with secureboot, opaque UEFI in our systems and TPM modules. The only saving grace is that they currently all have flaws.
I mean, you can just literally read the Google DRM github repo and it’ll tell you everything you need to know about how bad this is for the free internet.
A few of us sitting and using Firefox while Google is suggesting being able to control what computer you use, what software is installed, what plugins you are allowed to have?
This is a very big threat not solved by using Firefox.
Despite turning off settings to open new tabs, every website I open browsing on mobile opens a new tab
That shouldn’t happen, I’ve just set Homepage > Opening screen to last tab and when I open firefox it defaults to the last tab that I was on before exiting the browser
I had to adjust a ton of settings to stop it from downloading in the background every file I just wanted to view or print
Iirc its just setting browser.download.open_pdf_attachments_inline to true at about:config
Honestly, after this latest stunt by Google and Brave’s growing list of issues, I recently switched to Firefox myself. It was actually surprisingly less painful than it was switching from Chrome to Brave.
Fair enough, you have an opinion, that firefox is wrong in everything it does
That’s not what they are saying though. A lot of this is configurable for a reason.
but you need to learn the defaults
I don’t think that they do. They have see. They don’t like the defaults and it’s their right to change them. That’s the whole point of configurable FOSS ffs.
Just use Firefox. I don’t understand why people are so hell-bent on using a Chromium-based browser.
EDIT: I see now that I was grossly misinformed on the issue. Thanks for the replies.
Until Netflix decides you can only watch high resolution content via Chrome passing the DRM check.
Or your banking website does the same. Or YouTube. Or PayPal. And so on.
Though, honestly, nobody so far came up with any good explanations as to how this DRM scheme inside a browser would truly prevent adblocking and screen recording - my browser hasn’t got higher privileges than my admin user account.
They’ll fix that. The endgame might very well be you can only run a trusted browser, safely checked by your OS, itself trusted, running on fully signed code from a trusted source, started on a trusted motherboard/CPU, with hardware lockdown that would only boot trusted kernel and embed private keys so deep that you’d need a full lab to recover them, only to have them remotely disabled if anything funky seems to be happening at any point in that chain.
For now, this is fiction. For now. We already started moving that way with secureboot, opaque UEFI in our systems and TPM modules. The only saving grace is that they currently all have flaws.
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My computer my control fuckers. I’ll stop using 99% of the internet. I don’t give a fucking shit.
I mean, you can just literally read the Google DRM github repo and it’ll tell you everything you need to know about how bad this is for the free internet.
you can already only watch netflix hdr content on edge.
Still Chromium based
That has nothing to do with Chromium, but Edge being the only browser integrated into your system enough to use the DRM of your chipset.
On edge and Piracy, you mean. ;)
I don’t, myself, use Edge.
I also don’t do piracy, but downloading Edge sure looks less convenientn every day…
Yes, and how many people bother to do that when other means are so much easier even if you pay for Netflix…
Vudu, Hulu, and I’m sure others already prevent Hdx+ content unless it’s through chrome or Microsoft’s whatever-it-is.
Good thing I sail the high seas. Fuck those companies.
A few of us sitting and using Firefox while Google is suggesting being able to control what computer you use, what software is installed, what plugins you are allowed to have?
This is a very big threat not solved by using Firefox.
They want ChromeOS…on literally everything.
Because the browser choice has nothing to do with what Google is trying to achieve with the DRM thing.
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Well, you can’t view or print a file without downloading it.
That shouldn’t happen, I’ve just set Homepage > Opening screen to last tab and when I open firefox it defaults to the last tab that I was on before exiting the browser
Iirc its just setting browser.download.open_pdf_attachments_inline to true at about:config
Honestly, after this latest stunt by Google and Brave’s growing list of issues, I recently switched to Firefox myself. It was actually surprisingly less painful than it was switching from Chrome to Brave.
Give Vivaldi a try, it’s a chromium fork but with a strong focus on privacy.
Fair enough, you have an opinion, that firefox is wrong in everything it does, it’s not valid, but you need to learn the defaults. Be well.
That’s not what they are saying though. A lot of this is configurable for a reason.
I don’t think that they do. They have see. They don’t like the defaults and it’s their right to change them. That’s the whole point of configurable FOSS ffs.