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[-] Aux@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

DRM is an umbrella term for technologies which allow media consumption for legitimate users and prevent access to everyone else. Examples are CD copy protection, serial numbers for software, as well as modern tools like encryption and remote access validation.

Most people don't use extensions thus no one will notice in general.

[-] Wild_Mastic@lemmy.world 46 points 1 year ago

I still don't get how people use Internet without adblockers

[-] Aux@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

People are technically illiterate. For most of human history, majority of population couldn't read. Right until basic education started to be enforced. And it wasn't something most approved back in the days.

[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For most of human history, majority of population couldn't read.

Common misconception. Most people couldn't read and write in Latin, which was the only literacy statistic anyone cared about in the middle ages. People could usually write out something in their mother tongue in order to write a letter or leave a note. Keep in mind that spelling was not standardized in English until basic education (as you alluded to). That's when rules about grammar and spelling started to be standardized. Prior to that, people just wrote phonetically and there was no societal norms for that being wrong. As long as you could be understood, you were writing.

[-] Aux@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

Majority of population was not speaking English at all.

[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

That's why I said mother tongue.

[-] OptimusPhillip@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

At least in my experience, ads are rarely that obtrusive. They're usually either shunted off into a sidebar or, in the case of a video site, short and/or skippable. I have run across more intrusive ads in the past, but they were few and far between. I have an adblocker now, but I have more than a few sites whitelisted.

[-] igorlogius@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Most people don’t use extensions thus no one will notice in general

Eh, ...

src. https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/usage-behavior

edit: Anyone please feel free to pitch in with data from other browsers. Thanks.

[-] tofubl@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 1 year ago

50% of 3%, that's a whopping 1.5%! 😅

But jokes aside, the average Firefox user is probably a lot more likely to have extensions than the average Chrome user.

[-] Fleppensteijn@feddit.nl 5 points 1 year ago

About 10% of those have an adblocker if I read correctly? I find that hard to believe. Maybe people who leave telemetry enabled are just different.

[-] SloppyPuppy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Not a good example as firefox users probably tend more to have add ons.

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