I’m just surprised this hasn’t already happened already…
If they do, they risk losing customers to other platforms. So far, they decided not to take that risk.
Same reason Microsoft or Adobe do not stop piracy. They want to create friction that pushes people to pay, but if they fully blocked adblockers then it could create an impetus for a competitor to become popular.
And then you have companies like Google who are going all in on adblocking because that is their entire revenue stream.
Only enough to make the average user comply.
Again, enough friction.
The original post is about Google
That would result in a mass exodus of their users and potentially result in their competitor popping up. Imagine the 2023 Reddit API controversy, but things going a lot worse for Reddit. Had Reddit taken a more extreme approach and made it entirely impossible to use any 3rd party apps instead of permitting workarounds for users to modify their apps, then they would’ve lost a lot of relevancy and would actually have suffered financially.
The smart way to do this would be to slowly implement anti-user practices over a long period of time, and let your corporate bootlickers gaslight the rest of the users into thinking that everything is fine and that they’re only overreacting.
Compatibility with older clients. It will also break some embedded videos on other sites too.
I will not install DRM on my devices.
This… kills the site.
(Would see Vimeo or similar take over in about 5 months)
I already just use screen capture recording to take videos in my desktop playing YouTube on a browser. Could they even stop that?
I mean that’s what DRM stops…
You can’t record it, its just a blackscreen…
You can try it. Or Try asking a friend/relative to screenrecord their netflix… its just black
I mean unless you literally take out a camera to record it… but then the video quality degrades since you aren’t gonna get a 1:1 from making a videotape of a screen.
Netflix being an application that is running on a TV seems like a very different situation than a video playing inside of a browser. How exactly would YouTube know or be able to stop screen recording short of forcing me to actively run a program?
The browsers implement the DRM protections. It will be black if you try to record.
You can also run Netflix in a browser
From a quick google search, seems like you can disable hardware acceleration to record with OBS. Or you can use other dedicated software. And thats not even covering the bypasses that can likely be done on Linux
To add, you could always capture via the output video too, regardless of the DRM nonsense. Once it leaves the device in a format a display can present it, any device that can utilize that signal can record it.
There’s always a million ways to skin the cat.
Nope
I mean that’s what DRM stops…
…and nobody wants that.
Me: “I’m curious why this evil dictator hasn’t enacted his evil plans yet?”
You: “Why do you support evil?”
So what are you trying to tell?
