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[-] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

They backed off their web drm, because it was hugely unpopular, but also because they remembered they own chromium and can just disable adblockers directly. They tried to over-engineer something that requires everyone else to adopt a new standard, when all they ever needed to do was use a sledgehammer.

this post was submitted on 20 Nov 2023
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