looks like rendering adblockers extensions obsolete with manifest-v3 was not enough so now they try to implement DRM into the browser giving the ability to any website to refuse traffic to you if you don’t run a complaint browser ( cough…firefox )

here is an article in hacker news since i’m sure they can explain this to you better than i.

and also some github docs

    • CheesyGordita@lemmy.worldEnglish
      210·
      1 year ago

      Every once in a while I help a family member or friend out with their machine and am stunned when I see the web without an adblocker. It honestly reminds me of the malicious early 2000s porn and “free downloads” sites… but it’s everywhere now, like cnn and eBay and shit. First thing I do is install Firefox and ublock origin, and mostly for their security.

      Youtube has also been running basically porn ads on “for kids” youtube channels as well and my kindergarten aged niece and nephew have been exposed to that shit. Adblock is 100% cyber security AND for kids safety.

      • JDubbleu@lemmy.worldEnglish
        81·
        1 year ago

        100% agree. The few times I have to turn off uBlock because it is breaking some obscure website it is always an awful experience. Auto-playing videos, ads taking up half the screen, and those annoying as fuck cookie banners. I can’t imagine using the internet without an ad/cookie blocker. I accidentally turned it off on Lemmy for a while and it was the only site that I didn’t immediately notice.

      • watson387@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        671·
        1 year ago

        I said this in another thread, but a lot of the internet is unusable without uBlock Origin IMO.

      • rm_dash_r_star@lemm.eeEnglish
        35·
        1 year ago

        and am stunned when I see the web without an adblocker.

        True, True, it’s damn near unusable. You take it for granted what a job your blocker is doing for you.

      • Holzkohlen@feddit.deEnglish
        34·
        1 year ago

        You remember browser toolbars? People would have 3 of them at once, having no clue where they got it from nor how to remove it.
        Good times.

      • NounsAndWords@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        1 year ago

        It kinda makes sense. All the people who know better already use an ad blocker so they don’t know what it’s really like and all the people who don’t know to use an ad blocker don’t know any better and that’s just what the internet looks like.

    • Gresham's Law@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      26·
      1 year ago

      Malvertising (a portmanteau of “malicious software (malware) advertising”) is the use of online advertising to spread malware.
      It typically involves injecting malicious or malware-laden advertisements into legitimate online advertising networks and webpages.
      Because advertising content can be inserted into high-profile and reputable websites, malvertising provides malefactors an opportunity to push their attacks to web users who might not otherwise see the ads, due to firewalls, more safety precautions, or the like.
      Malvertising is “attractive to attackers because they ‘can be easily spread across a large number of legitimate websites without directly compromising those websites’.”

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malvertising?wprov=sfla1