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

  • HurlingDurlingEnglish
    721·
    1 year ago

    Users like visiting websites that are expensive to create and maintain, but they often want or need to do it without paying directly. These websites fund themselves with ads, but the advertisers can only afford to pay for humans to see the ads, rather than robots.

    Won’t you think of the poor poor ad companies?

    • buckykat@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      271·
      1 year ago

      Users like visiting websites that are expensive to create and maintain

      Do they actually, or is that just all they have to visit anymore? Would users not be happier visiting a bunch of cheap geocities pages with blink tags instead of tracking cookies?

      • xePBMg9@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
        15·
        1 year ago

        It’s all about how far we can push the user and how much the user is willing to pay. Gotta squeeze and close all avenues of escape, so they tolerate some more.

      • CannaVet@lemmy.worldEnglish
        62·
        1 year ago

        Unfortunately all the masses want is maximum ease of use, full stop. Just look at the Reddit exiles -

        “Welcome to Lemmy, pick a server any server be a winner”

        “WTF IS THIS NERD SHIT SIGNUP TOOK MORE THAN ONE ACTION ON MY PART RIP LEMMY LONG LIVE REDDIT IS LEMME JUST REDDIT YET NO FUUUUUUUUU”

        • glad_cat@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
          11·
          1 year ago

          Sadly you’re right. Every migration from phpBB to Digg to Reddit filtered the people who made a minimum effort to understand the platforms, and now we have this.

          And I remember all the people who were not programmers, and could still setup and administrate their own phpBB…

    • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
      20·
      1 year ago

      Half the internet now seems to be bots creating content purely for the enjoyment of other bots. Typing any kind of difficult question into a search engine will now have you dodging a minefield of AI generated articles, none of which contain any useful information other than what they’ve scraped from other AI generated pages.

      • cryptik.rick@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        So true. I want to bang my head against a wall whenever i get a problem and the first three result pages are the same different article scraped by AI. To make matters worse, it’s almost always some speech about corruption followed by dism /fixnow

    • ScaredDuck@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Wait, is this google basically admitting they’ve been scamming advertisers by taking their money to show ads to bots?