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ELI5

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Explain it to me like I am 5. Everybody should know what this is about.

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Non-techy here, I've been seeing a lot of posts about Google DRM shenanigans, but don't really understand it, and what's 'bad' about it.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Oh, and why is bad: the server requires your browser to pass a check to see if it's going to run your code correctly (called an attestation). It asks a third party to do that check, which will most likely be Google. Guess which browsers are going to pass those attestations more easily? Chrome. The only possible benefit to the average person is that maybe this will make it more difficult for bot farms to access the web