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Chrome not proceeding with Web Integrity API deemed by many to be DRM (9to5google.com)
submitted 1 year ago by Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de to c/technology@lemmy.world
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The Chrome team says they're not going to pursue Web Integrity but...

it is piloting a new Android WebView Media Integrity API that’s “narrowly scoped, and only targets WebViews embedded in apps.”

They say its because the team "heard your feedback." I'm sure that's true, and I can wildly speculate that all the current anti-trust attention was a factor too.

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[–] ours@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What sucks so much in FF?

Yes, performance used to be spotty but this is no longer the case.

[–] Engywuck@lemm.ee -4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

UI/UX/Performance/Mobile app/Slow on Linux/Mozilla (the latter is the worst)

I'm not open to further debate. You asked, I replied. I preferred to migrate to a different browser and never look back, thanks to Mozilla.

[–] realitista@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Your info isn't up to date

[–] Engywuck@lemm.ee -3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah, sure /s.

Fuck Mozilla, really. I wouldn't go back to FF even if it was the last browser on earth, as long as it gives oxygen to Mozilla. I'd like Moz Corp. to disappear.

[–] gentooer@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If Mozilla were to disappear, Chromium web engine would have a true monopoly. Seeing how bad things are getting with their almost monopoly, I'd like to help avoid that.

[–] realitista@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

I do understand this feeling. It's how I felt when I first left Firefox for Chrome. I would check in every few years for about 10-15 years and see if I was still better off on Chrome, and I was. But then one time, it just wasn't the case any more. I switched back to Firefox and now Chrome feels shitty, slow, and bloated to me.

[–] gentooer@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been using FF (and Thunderbird) for about 5 years now on my dual core old laptop running Gentoo, and it's always run pretty smooth. Especially when they switched to the Quantum web engine.

[–] Engywuck@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Of course. Everybody is having a great time on FF, that why this happens:

https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity

Yeah, surely Chrome/Google/$EandomEvilCorp are to blame, but Not Mozilla, the can't do anything wrong, poor souls /s

[–] gentooer@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

I'm not arguing that people are switching to Firefox. I'm only saying that your argument about FF on Linux is just plain wrong.

I also prefer the UI/UX of FF over Chromium based browsers, but that's very subjective of course.