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

  • M0oP0o@mander.xyz
    1·
    1 year ago

    Hate to tell you this here but Opera is also chrome based…

    To be helpful here is a list of all the browsers (according to Wikipedia anyway) that are actually just three chromes in a trench coat.

    Arc
Amazon Silk
Avast Secure Browser developed by Avast
Blisk 
Brave 
Carbonyl
CodeWeavers 
Comodo Dragon 
Cốc Cốc 
Epic Browser
Falkon
Microsoft Edge 
Naver Whale
Opera 
Qihoo 360 Secure Browser
qutebrowser 
Samsung Internet
Sleipnir 
Slimjet:
SRWare Iron
ungoogled-chromium 
Vivaldi
Yandex Browser