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Want ads? Because this is how you get ads. And not just ads, but targeted tracking and surveillance. Google wants to embed DRM in the entire web, and control it! They would be the ones who attest to what can be seen, and more to the point - What YOU see, or what THEY think you should see. Make no mistake, Google is an advertising company and this would crush all alternate and independent sites and content. Comply or never be seen again. This is purely an arrogant move to increase profits. Google doesn't want to save you from ads. This is a power grab to force you to see only their ads. And it's already being pushed into Chromium. What can you do? Get involved and voice your concern.

Join the github peaceful protest to remove the pull request.

Donate to organisations like Mozilla and EFF who will likely take this on if asked.

Use Firefox, Librewolf, Mullvad browser or something not based on Chromium.

Stop using Google products. Stop giving them any data to sell about you. Protest by withholding $. It will effect Chrome, Brave, Opera, Vivaldi and any thing based on Chromium. Here's more information.

additionally: https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/05384cbd-be03-416a-8469-4187e871f106.png

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[-] shawncarter@mastodon.online 2 points 1 year ago

@notun @M4775 this is some bubble gum and duct tape engineering, but you could tab multiple instances of Firefox with tabbed windows in Pop until Firefox figures it out...

[-] M4775@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's a decent suggestion. Using multiple windows in a tile stack would be the way I'd do it, but it sounds like that probably won't be a valid suggestion. I don't think it's a such a great feature that I'd comply with DRM based web page tracking and ads for. For clarity, any site with Google's DRM will need to be seen with Chrome or you won't be able to use the site, period. You will be 100% tracked and served ads. They will know exactly who you are on any site. They will clutter your pages, tab stacked or otherwise. I don't believe Google when they say this for your safety and will stop ads. It will give them exclusive power to push ads and companies will pay them a premium to force ads in your pages. This isn't Google's engineers who are pushing this. It's Google corporate making it's engineers break the web for profit and ad dominance.

Losing the ability to block ads completely or have tab stacking - I know which way I'd go. But hey, you can't force people to do anything, and unlike Google I wouldn't, so I'll just leave it there.

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