this post was submitted on 13 Aug 2023
634 points (98.8% liked)

Open Source

31133 readers
340 users here now

All about open source! Feel free to ask questions, and share news, and interesting stuff!

Useful Links

Rules

Related Communities

Community icon from opensource.org, but we are not affiliated with them.

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 

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

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] elbarto777@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The first point is no longer true. The second point is, sadly, quite relevant.

[–] kionite231@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

By just changing user agent string you can make the site work on Firefox too!

[–] elbarto777@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

True for many cases. But I was referring to cases in which the site really acts out because it's optimized for Chrome.

[–] cmhe@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To the second point, as a avid firefox user, I noticed that some Webapps seem to not depend on the Browser alone.

Even in safe mode, some Webapps sometimes work better on different systems than on others using the same Firefox version.

For instance youtube streaming seem to work better on my Linux laptop then on my Windows desktop, where it becomes stuttery. In Chromium there it works as well as Firefox on my Laptop.

What I want to say is that browsers and all the systems around this are very complicated. So your milage with the same browser will vary, and you might blame the wrong thing.

[–] elbarto777@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Oh I'm aware of that. Network drivers, GPUs, running processes, etc.

[–] this_is_router@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

After using Firefox for 20 years, aside of maybe 3 times I never had any problems. So I can't confirm the second point at all