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Your choice of browser matters โ€” 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

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[-] ZephyrXero@lemmy.world 60 points 1 year ago

I've been using Firefox as my primary on both desktop and mobile for about 6 years now, and it's usually pretty great. Desktop rarely has problems. On mobile there are a good number of sites with issues though, because devs don't usually test against it as has had a low number of users. But hopefully this revitalized movement to switch will make them have to care. And that said, 99% of the time these sites are still mostly usable, unless the broken thing is important like say a login screen ๐Ÿ˜…

[-] Mpolmanteer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I have been using in desktop for about a year and it's been great. I had tried mobile a while back and had some issues but with Google's proposals I'm willing to try again.

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