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Even if they do that, some people will just create illegal website mirrors that remove ads.
On reddit, people already copy paste articles when there's a paywall. I can totally envision that thing to be more common.
I am not fucking kidding, I will stop using websites if I cannot block ads. This is non negotiable. I don't care about your business model, I have zero money to give you. I tried the official reddit app, and uninstalled within a week.
I've even seen websites that copy stackoverflow questions and answers word for word, and just displays them differently.
I think that's spammy SEO abuse though... Not circumventing ads or anything.
Well if the OG source uses DRM, fuck em! I don't care if Google's search engine goes to shit. Not sure how much shittier it can get, but fuck em!
I said this the other day and had a user suggest theirs no point because Google will win, and it'll be impossible to avoid this DRM garbage. They didn't seem to grasp that you can just not use the websites that use that tech.
I won't use them then, and go offline I guess