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Well, I think you're being overly alarmist, at least in the short term: DRM on Video has not really caught on, at least on-line; Non-Chrome browsers continue to

Well, I think you're being overly alarmist, at least in the short term: DRM on Video has not really caught on, at least on-line; Non-Chrome browsers continue to have a significant share (mostly on Desktops); and ad blocking remains rather effective. In the long run, I'm definitely worried: Capitalist economies tend to see a concentration of capital, generally and in most sectors individually. And this seems to be a real danger with computing technology. Coupled with mass surveillance and the pushing of people to have their personal information held by those large tech companies, a dystopia is not inconceivable. PS - By AMP, do you mean Amazon Prime?

AlexandrB 6y ago
> DRM on Video has not really caught on, at least on-line This seems like a weird statement. All of the paid streaming services use DRM on Video, so all major browsers include the requisite black-box DRM modules. I'm actually surprised YouTube has not added Widevine DRM for all videos yet, but I'm sure it'll happen if RIAA/MPAA get annoyed enough with youtube-dl and the like. > PS - By AMP, do you mean Amazon Prime? I think he means Google AMP[1], which is slowly infecting more of the top search results on Google. [1] https://developers.google.com/amp/ https://developers.google.com/amp/
- einpoklum 6y ago
  I've never heard of this AMP thing. Is it really that popular? Valid point about paid streaming services - which I don't use.
  - ffpip 6y ago
    AMP is incredibly popular. Every news site has enabled it. You have a 100% chance of seeing an AMP page in the top results for anything. Google had 2 options - make websites faster the normal way (remove bloat) or make websites faster by introducing AMP. AMP is controlled by Google. What do you think they did? They said they would reduce the site's ranking if they didnt use AMP. Within weeks, everybody except Wikipedia was introducing AMP.

AlexandrB 6y ago

> DRM on Video has not really caught on, at least on-line This seems like a weird statement. All of the paid streaming services use DRM on Video, so all major browsers include the requisite black-box DRM modules. I'm actually surprised YouTube has not added Widevine DRM for all videos yet, but I'm sure it'll happen if RIAA/MPAA get annoyed enough with youtube-dl and the like. > PS - By AMP, do you mean Amazon Prime? I think he means Google AMP[1], which is slowly infecting more of the top search results on Google. [1] https://developers.google.com/amp/ https://developers.google.com/amp/

einpoklum 6y ago
I've never heard of this AMP thing. Is it really that popular? Valid point about paid streaming services - which I don't use.
- ffpip 6y ago
  AMP is incredibly popular. Every news site has enabled it. You have a 100% chance of seeing an AMP page in the top results for anything. Google had 2 options - make websites faster the normal way (remove bloat) or make websites faster by introducing AMP. AMP is controlled by Google. What do you think they did? They said they would reduce the site's ranking if they didnt use AMP. Within weeks, everybody except Wikipedia was introducing AMP.