Your choice of browser matters — Google’s Web DRM and the open internet

https://grafcube.codeberg.page/blog/2023/08/06/web-drm-api.html

I wrote this blog post to inform the people I know who aren’t as tech savvy or otherwise don’t put any thought into their choice of browser. Another goal is to help get enough awareness on the topic and make sure it fails.

@opensource @privacy #webintegrityapi #WEI #google #mozilla #chrome #firefox #chromium #foss #opensource #OpenWeb #privacy #drm #nodrm #drmfree #freesoftware #browser

  •  gram   ( @orsinium@fosstodon.org ) 
    8•11 months ago

    @grafcube @opensource @privacy

    > But why do you use Chrome?

    I can tell why I do. I used to use Firefox but had to move to Chromium long time ago for several reasons:

    1. It was nicer on RAM on a very small machine I had at the time. I think Firefox got better in that sense since then.

    2. Many web apps don’t work quite well (or don’t work at all) on anything but Chrome. That’s a sin many lazy web developers make, and it forces their choice on the users.