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I'm just waiting for the time until websites won't load at all unless you have hardware DRM turned on that will take all of your control away. >Extensions act

I'm just waiting for the time until websites won't load at all unless you have hardware DRM turned on that will take all of your control away. >Extensions act on behalf of users, they add capabilities to a user agent, and deprecating the blocking ability of the webRequest API will essentially decrease the level of user agency in Chromium This is off-topic, but I felt the same way about most data privacy problems. It was my own browser that was giving out the information and I would still like to see better control over it by default. Data privacy laws are simply a bandaid that don't help at all against malicious actors.

giancarlostoro 8y ago
> I'm just waiting for the time until websites won't load at all unless you have hardware DRM turned on that will take all of your control away. I already leave websites that become unusable with adblock on, or without it on. It will just trim down on the amount of sites I go on.
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- mirimir 8y ago
  Same here. If it's something I'm particularly interested in, I look for a cache, snapshot or whatever. Edit: Or just read HN comments.
  - giancarlostoro 8y ago
    Ah yes, I used Firefox' reader mode, but some news sites now don't even properly support that. I may have to remind myself not to go on those sites anymore as well.
    - acqq 8y ago
      > Firefox' reader mode, but some news sites now don't even properly support that All sites which are on Google Amp. Google, whenever it can, "helpfully" gives me the amp site and then I have to find and click the link to the actual site to get to the "readable" version.
      - 18pfsmt 8y ago
        Excuse me, but I believe using a google website to get to content negates the whole discussion over how to prevent webscale surveillance by advertising companies. In other words, if your "solution" to the problem as outlined in the OP involves google, you already lost.
mancerayder 8y ago
I'm just waiting for the time until websites won't load at all unless you have hardware DRM turned on that will take all of your control away. My money is on news sites and other paywall sites doing that first. How long before they stop letting us "open in new private window"? Washington Post doesn't even allow that anymore -- a shame too, since I haven't read a single one of their articles since then.

giancarlostoro 8y ago

> I'm just waiting for the time until websites won't load at all unless you have hardware DRM turned on that will take all of your control away. I already leave websites that become unusable with adblock on, or without it on. It will just trim down on the amount of sites I go on.

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mirimir 8y ago
Same here. If it's something I'm particularly interested in, I look for a cache, snapshot or whatever. Edit: Or just read HN comments.
- giancarlostoro 8y ago
  Ah yes, I used Firefox' reader mode, but some news sites now don't even properly support that. I may have to remind myself not to go on those sites anymore as well.
  - acqq 8y ago
    > Firefox' reader mode, but some news sites now don't even properly support that All sites which are on Google Amp. Google, whenever it can, "helpfully" gives me the amp site and then I have to find and click the link to the actual site to get to the "readable" version.
    - 18pfsmt 8y ago
      Excuse me, but I believe using a google website to get to content negates the whole discussion over how to prevent webscale surveillance by advertising companies. In other words, if your "solution" to the problem as outlined in the OP involves google, you already lost.

mancerayder 8y ago

I'm just waiting for the time until websites won't load at all unless you have hardware DRM turned on that will take all of your control away. My money is on news sites and other paywall sites doing that first. How long before they stop letting us "open in new private window"? Washington Post doesn't even allow that anymore -- a shame too, since I haven't read a single one of their articles since then.