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[–] igorlogius@lemmy.world 127 points 2 years ago (2 children)

laughs in firefox + uBlock Origin

[–] excel@lemmy.megumin.org 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Except WEI is going to make it so the website can detect and block you if you don't allow the ads, regardless of your browser and extensions

[–] igorlogius@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

At the moment WEI has been rejected by mozilla, so it wont be implemented into firefox. if google decides to add it into chrome and to their services, they will effectively lock out all firefox users. - A very anarchistic part of me actually would like to see how that would play out ... but at the moment i am unsure if google would actually dare doing this, but i guess, it will only be a matter of time and we'll find out.

Not sure if this move would actually damage the open web ... since basically google would single itself out as the enemy ... and i dont see many users appreciating such a move.

But if the worst happens and the whole web follows googles example, i guess we can just call this iteration of a "open web" a failure and start over with something much simpler ... maybe something like the gemini protocol as its base, which isnt polluted with clientside javascript garbage and bloated CSS/XHTML parsers and rendering engines .

[–] Ubermeisters@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I fully expect that without a change of current course, Google will ensure yt will just stop working on Firefox at some point.

[–] art@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

I guarantee there will be a workaround. It's not magic it's just code. And once that code is on your machine there's not much they can do about it.

[–] le_soleil_levant@jlai.lu 5 points 2 years ago

Firefox + uBlock Origin user here. I started getting those popups a few days ago.