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Two mistakes here. It is not the complexity of WWW that give you Widevine. It is the need, or the greed, to monetise every view of your screen that give birth
by phantomathkg 3y ago
Two mistakes here.
It is not the complexity of WWW that give you Widevine.
It is the need, or the greed, to monetise every view of your screen that give birth of Widevine. [0] This is because DRM is already applied to IPTV way before company start streaming video over the internet.
Also Widevine doesn't force you to watch ad. Last check Youtube is not doing server side ad insertion yet. meaning even if the main content is DRM protected, the AD is not part of the main content (and protected), and so it is technically possible to download the main content and stitch them back together without the ad.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widevine#Origins_(1998%E2%80%932006) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widevine#Origins_(1998%E2%80%9...
- shiomiru 3y ago> It is not the complexity of WWW that give you Widevine. It is however the complexity of the WWW that has resulted in the current situation where both mainstream browser engines support DRM. Indeed, the real problem is that I can write an all-inclusive "both", and even then one is really just a fork of the other. OK, there is a third one, but it's not the default anywhere and it also has DRM :( > Last check Youtube is not doing server side ad insertion yet. You also write `yet' :) Considering YT's anti-adblocking efforts lately, I assume it is just a matter of time.