• Jmr@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    DRM is protection for a type of media. An example would be Denuvo. The issue is that Google is an Ad company and they need ads to live so they want to add DRM to websites. And since they make Chromium they also want to block ad-blockers on the world most used browser

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    1 year ago

    DRM is an umbrella term for technologies which allow media consumption for legitimate users and prevent access to everyone else. Examples are CD copy protection, serial numbers for software, as well as modern tools like encryption and remote access validation.

    Most people don’t use extensions thus no one will notice in general.

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        1 year ago

        50% of 3%, that’s a whopping 1.5%! 😅

        But jokes aside, the average Firefox user is probably a lot more likely to have extensions than the average Chrome user.

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        1 year ago

        People are technically illiterate. For most of human history, majority of population couldn’t read. Right until basic education started to be enforced. And it wasn’t something most approved back in the days.

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          For most of human history, majority of population couldn’t read.

          Common misconception. Most people couldn’t read and write in Latin, which was the only literacy statistic anyone cared about in the middle ages. People could usually write out something in their mother tongue in order to write a letter or leave a note. Keep in mind that spelling was not standardized in English until basic education (as you alluded to). That’s when rules about grammar and spelling started to be standardized. Prior to that, people just wrote phonetically and there was no societal norms for that being wrong. As long as you could be understood, you were writing.