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Google is ruining the entire web (feddit.de)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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[–] 46 points 3 years ago (2 children)

I can't wait to have to download a crack for my browser so a website thinks that my browser is using wei and no-adblock.

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  • [–] 46 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (4 children)

    Just use Firefox. I don't understand why people are so hell-bent on using a Chromium-based browser.

    EDIT: I see now that I was grossly misinformed on the issue. Thanks for the replies.

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  • [–] 39 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    my browser hasn’t got higher privileges than my admin user account

    They'll fix that. The endgame might very well be you can only run a trusted browser, safely checked by your OS, itself trusted, running on fully signed code from a trusted source, started on a trusted motherboard/CPU, with hardware lockdown that would only boot trusted kernel and embed private keys so deep that you'd need a full lab to recover them, only to have them remotely disabled if anything funky seems to be happening at any point in that chain.

    For now, this is fiction. For now. We already started moving that way with secureboot, opaque UEFI in our systems and TPM modules. The only saving grace is that they currently all have flaws.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    you can already only watch netflix hdr content on edge.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    Honestly, after this latest stunt by Google and Brave's growing list of issues, I recently switched to Firefox myself. It was actually surprisingly less painful than it was switching from Chrome to Brave.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago*

    Despite turning off settings to open new tabs, every website I open browsing on mobile opens a new tab

    That shouldn't happen, I've just set Homepage > Opening screen to last tab and when I open firefox it defaults to the last tab that I was on before exiting the browser

    I had to adjust a ton of settings to stop it from downloading in the background every file I just wanted to view or print

    Iirc its just setting browser.download.open_pdf_attachments_inline to true at about:config

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  • [–] -2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Fair enough, you have an opinion, that firefox is wrong in everything it does, it's not valid, but you need to learn the defaults. Be well.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Fair enough, you have an opinion, that firefox is wrong in everything it does

    That's not what they are saying though. A lot of this is configurable for a reason.

    but you need to learn the defaults

    I don't think that they do. They have see. They don't like the defaults and it's their right to change them. That's the whole point of configurable FOSS ffs.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Right. I mean there's always going to be a way. Your open source browser can run a spoof of an "official" browser, present itself as a valid user, load the page with all the ads and tracking in a sandbox in between, strip all of it out and serve you the actual content.

    Or maybe people will eventually be fed up and we'll start our own internet completely out of corporate control.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago

    Your open source browser can run a spoof of an β€œofficial” browser

    Not if the server requires the digital signature of a challenge to be produced by a key whose certificate is signed by a "trusted" third party, said third party only providing that key at runtime, if your browser can also provide the same kind of authorization from the OS, itself being only able to produce it if it can safely determine that it's running on completely locked-down hardware AND having online-activated DRM tells him he can provide such key; the hardware itself requiring constant online connexion to ensure it's "authorized", and including yet another layer of keys in hardware.

    There's been progress toward this kind of things. At every step, people warning about the risks are seen as lunatics. SecureBoot preventing booting a custom kernel? No problem, microsoft will sign your keys. TPM not delivering keys to non-trusted kernels? No problem, just don't use it (and don't get the keys, obviously). UEFI requiring digital signature to be flashed? It's for your safety, but we won't give you the keys or it would defeat the purpose. Embedded CPU inside your CPU running opaque code on every operation you do? Trust me bro, there's no problem here.

    Sure, opensource (or even just open at this point) alternative will most likely remain available as a niche, but once all major services that people want requires such a chain of control, the vast majority of people will gladly flock to locked-down system. Heck, it's already happening. Nowadays I can't even log into my bank website without a trusted iOS or Android device. The "free, open" alternative will be rare, expensive, and only work for people that cares. Which is not too much sadly.

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  • [–] -4 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I hear web3 is a decentralised web.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    The web is already decentralized. Always was. It's the people that want centralized services for convenience, and some of these services have valid reasons to be centralized. Web3 have nothing to do with any of this.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago*

    They're talking about piracy.

    And if the only choice becomes between privacy and piracy, well, I can't be saying which I would choose, matey. Avast!

    Edit: To be clear, I be a sailor of the highest moral fibre - not inclined to pillaging, or looting. But each new DRM thingamajig sets me a wee bit more sympathetic to them what do.

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