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Mozilla officially opposes Web Enviroment Integrity API (DRM for web pages proposal from Google) (github.com)

submitted 1 year ago by sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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[–] FluffyToaster621@lemm.ee 60 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If this DRM can force you to use Chromium to display a webpage or content, that would be the most anticompetitive thing in recent times, and would absolutely not fly.

[–] xeekei@lemm.ee 43 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's why they want to make it a web standard, so they can just blame Firefox and others for not following the standard and avoid EU fines.

That's what Microsoft did with their office document standard.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, the sad thing here is that if Apple comply, it will basically become a standard and there's nothing that Firefox or anything else can do about it. If they can get it on iPhone, it's game over. Half the web will be blocked unless you agree to see adverts.

[–] nan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I doubt they will.

Apple already has the Private Access Tokens that Cloudflare has been working on making into a standard, primarily for skipping captchas. Google doesn’t like those because they are too private.

[–] DarkThoughts@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I doubt the EU would buy that.

[–] wallmenis@lemmy.one 6 points 1 year ago

I am afraid EU can be too dumb to not buy that!

[–] xeekei@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If it's an actual official web standard, they might have to.

[–] DarkThoughts@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

"Official" web standards huh?