Oh boy, it’s happening. Google is flexing it’s muscles and abusing it’s market position. It has never been a better way to convince and support family and friends in moving across to Firefox, a fast and privacy supporting browser.
Oh boy, it’s happening. Google is flexing it’s muscles and abusing it’s market position. It has never been a better way to convince and support family and friends in moving across to Firefox, a fast and privacy supporting browser.
What does it actually do? And will it affect at all if I use Firefox?
Mozilla and Firefox opposed this change. How much impact this has on if you if you use Firefox is yet to be seen.
If this change goes in, and has wide spread use, then Firefox won’t work with those websites, and you will be impacted. If this change goes in, but enough people use Firefox, then you won’t be impacted.
As for what this change does: Its a little murky, but the short version is it allows for a remote web server to verify if you have messed with the local version. This could be as simple as preventing Ad block from working, as useful as ensuring it’s not a bot interacting with your website, or as idiotic as breaking all accessibility tools.
TL;DR; Use Firefox.
Yes, I wrote a comment here on it but there’s some more technical explanations on other comments on this post
https://lemmy.world/comment/1740194
tl;dr: it’s basically DRM but for websites, also serves as adblocker/trackerblocker prevention that can’t be bypassed.
It’s up to the individual websites to use it or not, any websites I would use probably wouldn’t use it. Hopefully the only website I need to access that is not FOSS, my mobile banking website, won’t use it.
I fear it’ll start with banking and streaming and eventually get rolled out. I fear if we don’t block this at the start, it will eventually keep rolling. It’ll be like a snowball rolling down hill, we need to stop it getting on to the slope.
I’m going to be really pissed if US banks implement this for “security” but still won’t implement TOTP 2FA.
This article is also useful to understand it: https://lemmy.ml/post/2483035