• Pogogunner@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Google (The company behind Chrome) wants to create a type of DRM for web pages. Google claims that this will help with things like bot traffic, spam, etc.

    Mozilla (The company behind firefox) is opposed to creating this DRM because it has no benefit to the end user and is likely to be harmful to the openness of the internet.

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      1 year ago

      Not just chrome, but also the lead contributor to chromium (the underlying system in Edge, Brave, etc.)

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        1 year ago

        Somewhat. Webstandards are voted upon, and I believe Mozilla is part of those organizations.

        However Google could always choose to ignore web standards and do what they want. And due to their massive market dominance this would effectively enforce this overnight for over half of the internet.

        The reason they may not, is the EU would take them to court over that. The US no longer believes in stopping companies from ruining shit though.