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My fear is that DRM for video content will quickly become DRM for text content. Say goodbye to adblocking and tracker blocking.
by Paul-ish 9y ago
My fear is that DRM for video content will quickly become DRM for text content. Say goodbye to adblocking and tracker blocking.
- flukus 9y agoThis is what canvas+webASM is designed to do. Legit content and tracking scripts will be delivered to your browser as a single binary blob.
- anilgulecha 9y agoThat will only be slightly more difficult than blocking today, technically. What would be worse is that there's a plausible text-DRM coming up next, which would make altering contents of webpage illegal, hence making ad-blocking unlawful.
- floatboth 9y agoWebAssembly is a performance optimization, it doesn't bring anything new that wasn't possible in JavaScript. If someone actually wanted to do this, it would've been done a long time ago, with a single JavaScript blob.
- bfu 9y agoThen use canvas.toDataURL() to convert canvas to PNG image and you can watch it everywhere