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This is just a wild guess, but the visible watermark could be the result of a legal issue. Having hidden tracking elements in such videos could require disclosi
by OSButler 11y ago
This is just a wild guess, but the visible watermark could be the result of a legal issue.
Having hidden tracking elements in such videos could require disclosing them, whereas a visible watermark could be used to argue that the viewer is aware of the video being marked and therefore other included tracking elements do not need to be specifically named.
It has the potential side-effect of the watermark getting blurred out by the leaker, but leaving other tracking pieces intact.
- greggarious 11y agoYou're confusing eavesdropping law with tracking in general. (You're probably thinking of the one party vs two party consent issue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_recording_laws https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_recording_laws) If I were to somehow create a Game of Thrones video file that "phones home", yes that would need to be disclosed. If I want to add an invisible watermark to a video file and note who got the video with that watermark, that is legal.