• KemonozumeFan@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    No, it can do more than that. For example it can tell the site whether the user is using a browser that is based on Chromium, which they can then use to deny you access if you don’t. Since Manifest V3 has killed adblockers in Chromium-based browsers, this will mean if you need access to a site that does this, you will need to use a Chromium-based browser and see ads. Looking at the proposal, it will also tell them which OS you use, making it even worse.

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      1 year ago

      Seems like to trying to lock out any other browsers from being able to access content would be an Anti-Trust issue. If I were one of the others I would sue them.

      • FehrIsFair@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Didn’t Microsoft try this back in the IE6 days? Like sites wouldn’t load if it wasn’t IE6?