And since you won’t be able to modify web pages, it will also mean the end of customization, either for looks (ie. DarkReader, Stylus), conveniance (ie. Tampermonkey) or accessibility.

The community feedback is… interesting to say the least.

  • guy@lemmy.world
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    This is just terrible.

    However, while it does add a layer of annoyance that’ll mess things up for most, like any DRM, it fundamentally is unsound and will get cracked. Us good people have a big incentive to do so here. Reading the spec, it still relies on a trusted party (expected to be the OS) and, unlike ie. games consoles, we already have admin access to that party from the get go.

    Where it could be a problem is mobile phones. They could target browsers that support ad blocking and you’d probably need to root the phone to get past that.