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Google's Web DRM is Worse than I Thought...
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this post was submitted on 09 Aug 2023
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I was multitasking while watching but I'm pretty sure this is the idea.
Googles "web DRM" makes it impossible (or extremely difficult) to lie to a website about your browser, operating system, and whether or not you're human (or a bot). Websites can then use this info to deny access if they decide not to trust any of the info given.
This could easily be used to suppress the use of open source software which is probably why so many FOSS projects and foundations oppose it.
It doesn’t prove you’re not a bot though, only that the request is coming from a ‘genuine device’. You just need to pipe your malicious requests through a ‘real browser’ to get them approved and you’re set.
WEI could require secureboot, so you could no longer modify the OS or Chrome to "pipe" those requests.