• SavvyWolf@pawb.social
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    7 months ago

    They 100% would stop you if they could.

    It’s why Google’s website DRM thing was so scary.

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        7 months ago

        Basically Google wanted to put checksums in webpages and then not render the page period if the checksum didn’t match and said checksum could only be verified by “approved” browsers that had the correct certificate (which surprise was Chromium only browsers such as Chrome and probably Edge). As such you wouldn’t have been able to run any adblockers as that would change the checksum and the way the page was rendered. They could also then go one step further and do a Denouvo type set up to make sure the OS wasn’t being altered.

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          Yes, I know about what they attempted (actually published some of it already in an official repo).

          But why you talk in past tense? Have they reverted the changes and publicly pinky-promised not to do it?

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        7 months ago

        Okay, so I originally was going to go in a long rant about how they’re still doing it, but decided that it didn’t really add much to the comment, so removed it.

        Afaik they’ve, for now at least, shelved it in browsers, but are still going ahead in Android webviews (as part of their war on Youtube Vanced).

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          7 months ago

          i guess they will probably try again with a new name later when the dust settles. can never trust them.

          what about android webviews, i thought it isnt related to vanced? how do they plan to kill vanced this time?