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What surprised me is how quickly it felt like the consensus went from "DRM is evil" to "Neat, Netflix!". Same thing with privacy and anonymity online. I have
by ehnto 5y ago
What surprised me is how quickly it felt like the consensus went from "DRM is evil" to "Neat, Netflix!". Same thing with privacy and anonymity online.
I have to imagine it's because the internet quickly filled with people not primed to be interested in those concerns and so they became popular in spite of the previous concerns.
Less like the boiling of the frog metaphor and more like they started boiling a mouse and then threw a million frogs in, so the mouse didn't matter anymore.
- oefnak 5y agoI think for most people it was the fact that Netflix was the first app that was as convenient as popcorn time.
- heavyset_go 5y ago> I have to imagine it's because the internet quickly filled with people not primed to be interested in those concerns and so they became popular in spite of the previous concerns. It's because of a lot of PR and astroturfing.