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

  • BearPear@lemmy.world
    24·
    1 year ago

    Oh, also Firefox is the only mainstream browser on Android that supports installing extensions.

    • Lemmy Reddit That@lemmy.world
      6·
      1 year ago

      This. I switched to Firefox on Android, because of extensions. At the same time I switched to Firefox on Windows. And I never looked back. The only problem I have is native support for PWA on Firefox for desktops (we can add support with 3rd party app), and backgorund notifications doesn’t work on PWAs on Firefox for Android

      • panCatQ@lib.lgbtEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Weird , I have been using ff , twitter pwa for years and notifs work for me , although i voluntarily disabled notifs now !

        • Lemmy Reddit That@lemmy.world
          1·
          1 year ago

          Hm… It doesn’t work for me on my own app, where notifications are main part of the app. It does work on Chrome for Android and on both Chrome and Firefox on Windows, but on Firefox I never received a single notitication. And all notifications are enabled. I will try to remove and add PWA in firefox again and we will see. Is there some PWA app where I can test if notitications are working? I am not using Twitter.

          • panCatQ@lib.lgbtEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            There is a telegram pwa i think but i use the open source app for that !