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

  • nevernevermore@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    helped with formatting:

    Chrome -> Firefox

    Drive -> sync or Dropbox or any number of options

    Sheets and productivity tools > libre office or Apache open office

    YouTube -> Invidious or even better, odysse

    Google search -> duck duck go, SearXNG, StartPage, etc

    Gmail -> not a ton of great options. I’d probably recommend proton mail but the FOSS email world is definitely lacking, or gets blocked or goes down, harder to self host etc.

    And I agree for sure. In order I use firefox (and brave sometimes), Proton Drive, Apple Productivity suite (pages, numbers etc), and either startpage or qwant, and proton mail. I do still use use YouTube Premium, but the point is Google doesn’t need to have its fingers in every aspect of my digital life.