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The Adblockalypse is coming (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/memes@lemmy.ml
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[–] 21 points 3 years ago (3 children)

Correction: The adblockalypse is coming for people still using chromium

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

    It's serverside with browser support. A webserver implements it on their site, so it could refuse to load without WEI regardless of chromium or not.

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

    ...therefore, the more people who switch to non-chromium browsers, the better.

    You're preaching to the choir.

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

    I don't know. I just had a discussion where someone told me it'd unrealistic to give up YouTube for the alternatives and yadda yadda yadda. It bears reminding that not everyone is as privacy-minded and make up nowhere near a majority. Not caring what happens because you aren't using chromium is dangerous. It's still about you and it's still going to affect you.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    It's not that I don't care. I intend to do whatever I can to help prevent it. But at the end of the day, if people keep supporting platforms like YouTube, then I see the enshittification of the internet as inevitable. We're literally welcoming it by doing so.

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

    Been there, done that. Spoiler alert, it ends with even more people switching to chromium, Mozilla crying that it's deeply concerned with and extremely opposing WEI and will work on figuring out a better solution, because WEI is not what Open Web should be, but is being forced to implement it, because people are switching to other browsers because their shit ain't working.

    I wager the post on Mozilla's blog is going to read something like this blog-post about EME (the closed-source video DRM) from few years back. I mean, you can just replace EME with WEI and be done with it. Because this has already happened once before, and we know how exactly it will end.

    With most competing browsers and the content industry embracing the W3C EME WEI specification, Mozilla has little choice but to implement EME WEI as well so our users can continue to access all content they want to enjoy.

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

    Yea, because the other browsers certainly won't follow if users complain because Youtube and co. dont work anymore...

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  • [+] -6 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I wouldn't complain. Good riddance.

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

    You really don't realize how stupid that take is? If Google manages to establish this all major browsers will have follow and a single complain less won't change that...

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  • [+] -21 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I simply will not use the internet until another browser is available? Use that little head.

    Reported for being disproportionately hostile. There is no reason to attack someone over something as silly as web browsers.

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

    That wasn't a "attack"... 🤦

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  • [+] -14 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    It was, actually. I guess you just attack people without even realizing it. Let me guess: You're a redditor?

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

    LOL maybe you're just a little sensitive. Also YOU called HIM a redditor. That's an attack in my book.

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

    Good point, there are few people as unlikable than redditors, who are so fragile that they need to disparage other people with words like "stupid," or tell other people they're "too sensitive."

    On that note, in my experience, 100% of those who call others too sensitive are colosally bad, unempathetic humans.

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

    Perhaps ungoogled chromium will remove the WEI API?

    Or forks like Brave and such.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

    That's not how it works.

    Your bank will implement WEI API. Facebook will too, same as Gmail or Youtube. Any browser that does not support or has removed the WEI API will not be able to display or use any of those websites. It's the same with Netflix or Spotify - if you try to use it in a more privacy-centered browser, it simply does not work - because it those browsers do not support EME API (which is a DRM that was implemented few years ago, but for media). Firefox was against it, by the way. Firefox also quickly backed down and implemented it anyway once it rolled out, because "We ArE FoRcEd tO Do It", due to their already dwindling marketshare and people complaining and switching to other browsers because their shit ain't working on Firefox.

    Everyone keeps saying "I will never use a browser that does support WEI!", but somehow it feels like they don't really realize that their internet will simply stop working for most of the content they consume, since there's no reason for Google or Facebook to not use this opportunity to forcefeed more ads to people.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    That's fine I can replace or not use all those services and I would LOVE to see my bank try it I would love to see them try it in the EU too. These is blatant monopolistic moves and I will not change my browser or OS for WEI.

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