• Nia@lemmy.world
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    DRM for the web, think “you must disable your adblocker to use this site” except it actually works, and can do much more like a site can make it where you can only open it on x specific version of Google Chrome, refusing access to Firefox or MS edge users if they wanted. Or it could refuse to work if any extensions are enabled (people using lesser known accessibility extensions for vision difficulties etc. may be refused access to sites).

    Well-intentioned sites hopefully won’t abuse this, but the large chunk of sites, like 80% of the internet, likely will.

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      1 year ago

      So basically, anyone consuming the internet in any shape or form other than the intended by corporate owners is automatically dead in the water.

      Man, I can’t go back to ad-full, sponsor-skipless youtube… It’s too awful.

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        It is, but for this it could still be considered separate depending how sites implement it because this is checking how the page is loading itself on the browser, not an is-chromium checker.