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

  • Voxel@ohai.social
    41·
    1 year ago

    @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

    • Skimmer
      4·
      1 year ago

      The WebView on Android at least is Chromium based though, but I agree its probably best to make that distinction.

      • panCatQ@lib.lgbtEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Also its breaking sites left , right and center ! Things load on ff much better

      • Voxel@ohai.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        @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.

        • Skimmer
          3·
          1 year ago

          True, that’s why its probably good for a distinction to be made, I agree.

      • Voxel@ohai.social
        01·
        1 year ago

        @hevov It’s basically a system component which display web content. Android, Windows and other OS has this.

        • hevov@discuss.tchncs.de
          1·
          1 year ago

          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.

          • Voxel@ohai.social
            01·
            1 year ago

            @hevov No, It’s using the Webview Implemantion of the OS, which is different than a OS based on chromium. Since it’s function differently, probaly is based on Chromium, but is more like a fork of it. Windows has Edge Webview2 (Which isn’t that much related to it), Android has Android Webview or Chrome if Webview isn’t installed, you can also install alternative Webviews on Android. About iOS and MacOS, I don’t rly know. They have probaly smth with webkit.