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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

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[–] voxel@ohai.social 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (8 children)

@grafcube @opensource @privacy I will make some comments to it, when I finished reading. I just want to say u already got some points wrong, Brave plans to continue supporting MV2 too, same for Vivaldi as far ik. Also DuckDuckGo's Browser are not chromium based too, they use the Systems Webview.

Edit: removed the info that Brave will not support WEI, since it got later mentioned in the blog post

[–] Skimmer@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The WebView on Android at least is Chromium based though, but I agree its probably best to make that distinction.

[–] voxel@ohai.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@Skimmer I guess, there are still some differences to a normal chromium based browser if a browser operates with the systems webview Integration, which u can also change.

[–] Skimmer@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

True, that's why its probably good for a distinction to be made, I agree.

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