looks like rendering adblockers extensions obsolete with manifest-v3 was not enough so now they try to implement DRM into the browser giving the ability to any website to refuse traffic to you if you don’t run a complaint browser ( cough…firefox )

here is an article in hacker news since i’m sure they can explain this to you better than i.

and also some github docs

  • person@fenbushi.siteEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    I see so many comments from people saying they’ll jump ship if Google adds this to Chrome. They’ll move over to Firefox right away. But the thing most people don’t know is one reason Google has such a broad reach is they make it so crazy easy to integrate their services for developers.

    So, yes, users who dislike what they’re doing should stop using Google products if possible. But, more importantly, developers or project managers, etc. should all resist the urge to utilize this kind of feature even if it’s easy.

    • lowleveldata@programming.devEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      What do you mean? Gcloud is definitely not “easy” when compared to others like AWS. Also I think it’s common sense to avoid google products because they tend to abandon ship in a few years.

      • Teon@kbin.social
        2·
        1 year ago

        I completely agree.
        Would you like to follow me on G+ ?
        Google & Microsoft are famous for copying what all the other companies are doing and then letting it all die.
        Hello from Zune land.

      • Poke@beehaw.orgEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        This kind of feature is likely to be cloud agnostic, so Gcloud vs AWS isn’t really what’s up for debate.

        They’re likely referencing the ease of adding something like google analytics to a website, where you include a url in the code for a page and you’re done.

      • person@fenbushi.siteEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I mean Google has very convenient libraries that developers can add to their apps/websites like libraries for ads, A/B testing, crash reporting, push notifications, etc. Even using one’s Google account for SSO in an app just leaks a tiny bit of data for Google to suck up. I think the average phone user is unaware of how even non-Google apps can have Google code, even for iOS. Obviously, this is worse for Android since Google Play Services is installed on almost all Android devices.