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
If WEI proceeds, I won’t have a choice of browser. Or operating system.
@grafcube @opensource @privacy So mostly, I agree with what you said, but except the things you got wrong, which I already, mentioned there some other things I wanted to say: You critized Brave for including it’s crypto stuff, which is fair, but you said it like it would make it less trustworthy or bad for privacy which isn’t true, also u just can disable it and it has also the posetive effect that people who like this crypto stuff, start using a privacy respecting browser instead of the others
@grafcube @opensource @privacy Which I also wanted to say, the only Ads Brave allow are Ads in Search Results as far ik, I never seen any other ads so far while using Brave on Android (on Desktop I have uBO on top), you also said that Firefox has the superior Fingerprinting Protections which isn’t rly true, Brave’s approach to defend fingerprinting by randomization (giving every website a unique fingerprint every new session, etc.) is pretty effective. While Vivaldi has almost no fingepriting1/2
@grafcube @opensource @privacy 2/2 protections which make it a lot weaker compared too Brave. I wouldn’t never recommend Vilvadi over Brave, if it’s about privacy.
“Sure, Chromiums code is available and you can modify and redistribute it. But if you want to send your changes to the main project so that more people may benefit from it, it is ultimately Google’s decision. This is the problem with projects that are not community-run.”
Google is asshole. This shows than NOT all open source codes are free as in freedom. Stallman is right.
@grafcube @opensource @privacy Very good blog post. I use a fork of LibreWolf called FireDragon with all the settings I used to use on LibreWolf select including blocking fingerprint tracking, total cookie protection, and also multiple containers for sites. Cookies are only saved for sites I specify and the rest are deleted on closure.
@grafcube @opensource @privacy I will make some comments to it, when I finished reading. I just want to say u already got some points wrong, Brave plans to continue supporting MV2 too, same for Vivaldi as far ik. Also DuckDuckGo’s Browser are not chromium based too, they use the Systems Webview.
Edit: removed the info that Brave will not support WEI, since it got later mentioned in the blog post
The WebView on Android at least is Chromium based though, but I agree its probably best to make that distinction.
@Skimmer I guess, there are still some differences to a normal chromium based browser if a browser operates with the systems webview Integration, which u can also change.
@hevov It’s basically a system component which display web content. Android, Windows and other OS has this.
So you mean DuckDuckGo is just using the default browser engine?
Windows is probably using Edge/Chromium Mac OS is using WebKit.
That what you mean? I only found an Android app of a browser engine called System Engine.
