• shiftymccool@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    Arc Browser is better for USERS. Ad companies are just going to have to figure it out. Sounds like a “them” problem to me

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      9 months ago

      Remember Google attempt at DRM for the Internet? That would in effect block this. This and similar are justifying to companies to support Google Chrome only and use their DRM.

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        9 months ago

        I do not remember Google’s attempt at DRM for the Internet, which is an indication of how well it went for their attempt.

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            9 months ago

            I just did a search, and according to the articles I’ve found Google abandoned the “Web Environment Integrity” API in November and removed their prototype from Chromium.

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              9 months ago

              Well except that they are continuing with developing it for their Webview browser which is the web browser based of chrome that’s embedded in basically every app anyways.

              Plus Apple has their Web Tokens which are not being fought against which means Google will be desperate to get in on the pie that Apple is getting away with even if it means waiting and coming up with a different name for it.

              It’s still coming. Web DRM and person specific tracking is just around the bend once we get exhausted and distracted enough.

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                9 months ago

                Then I guess I won’t see whatever websites decide to use it (until it’s cracked). Oh well.

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                  9 months ago

                  Does that mean you (and me) end up drowning in a pool of 90% AI dead internet comments while everyone who stayed on Reddit or Facebook can talk to their friends in their WEI tracked & profiled walled garden?

                  Shitty choice.

                  The only solution I can see it robust moderation tools on a platform like Lemmy.

                  AI still gets to read everything but at least individuals/communities/instances can be blocked for bad behaviour.

                  What altertatives do we have right now?

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      9 months ago

      No offense but I’m not sure you read or understood the main point of the article — there’s not much of an internet for users if there’s no incentive to supply it with content.

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        9 months ago

        Advertisers are welcome to turn back the clock of enshittification to a time when the internet worked for both publishers and readers. They got greedy and abused the attention of readers, so I have no sympathy. Now this article adds a huge pile of entitlement that we owe them? On top of this excrement