▲ 274 ▼ Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible (stackdiary.com) submitted 3 years ago by seasonone@opidea.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.ml 32 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[+] StarrVorgato@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago (2 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 years ago I'm pretty sure overlay mode was always about performance, not preventing screenshots. permalink fedilink source parent [–] amju_wolf@pawb.social 1 point 3 years ago It's still very much a thing and works fairly well to protect high quality DRM content. People forgot it's a thing because a regular person is rarely in a situation where it would prevent them from doing something. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 years ago I'm pretty sure overlay mode was always about performance, not preventing screenshots. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] amju_wolf@pawb.social 1 point 3 years ago It's still very much a thing and works fairly well to protect high quality DRM content. People forgot it's a thing because a regular person is rarely in a situation where it would prevent them from doing something. permalink fedilink source parent