Comments by "Gareth Hart" (@tgheretford) on "Brodie Robertson" channel.

  1. All YouTube would have to do is implement Widevine and any other DRM technology on all YouTube content to enforce advertising being served to viewers unless a valid Premium subscription is on record and it would allow them to sue under the DMCA anyone who attempted to circumvent watching adverts or paying a subscription fee. And it would stuff every other Vanced competitor taking advantage of Vanced's downfall. And it would stuff VLC who allow you to view videos with a URL without advertising or subscription. Of course, it would also make it easier for major rights holders to sue for the profiting of their content uploaded by individuals to the site without permission.
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  2.  @avisprimey  It's inevitable. Every other streaming service is doing it, so will YouTube. All the money is not enough money.
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  3. The reason why Google is going down the DRM route is that circumvention of DRM is a crime in many jurisdictions. Which would mean that a FOSS solution to this problem could be a quick way to end up in court.
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  4. That you'll be paying a subscription fee for on top of a licensing fee.
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  5. For the Firefox cheerleaders and fans in the comments, who funds Mozilla to have their search engine as the default in Firefox (for most of the world) and who could make life difficult for Mozilla if they do not play ball?
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  6. I've noticed in the last day or two a significant uptick in long form and unskippable adverts. I wonder if Google is making YouTube free so ad-ridden that everyone is being pushed to Premium whilst dealing with alternative apps and ad-blocking that would allow free alternatives? Eventually I can see Google adopting their own Widevine DRM across the whole of YouTube to kill off any alternative access to YouTube, even for ad-supported content as well as a way to evade the ad-blockers.
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  7. Good luck to them with "RS". It's the trademarked name of a large and well known components distributor who work within the computing and electrical industry in the UK and worldwide.
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  8. Maybe they, yourself, other content creators and others should start a campaign to dissuade the public from using packages for software and either encourage or outright support a distribution that only allows installation of packages with Flatpak? Something different from all the comments suggesting they trademark the name.
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  9. I would switch to Wayland now if it wasn't for the one showstopper - I play games and I notice that XWayland plus NVIDIA on a number of the simulation games (not all) that I play a lot of have terrible stuttering when I move the camera to the point where its unplayable that doesn't happen playing the same games on Xorg. Anyone wishing to reply with "just AMD bro", I use a laptop. That is not an option.
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  10. Retried Wayland on Plasma after NVidia's driver upgraded to version 530. Everything is fine except for one game-stopper, gaming on Wayland and NVidia causes graphical stuttering in frames when moving around and scrolling. The new driver version has improved things but its still noticeable. Until that is resolved, I will be staying on Xorg. Beside that, I would be prepared to use Wayland on a daily basis because all the other issues for my usage needs I noticed appear to have been resolved.
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  11.  @PhysicsGamer  And where's the competition? Firefox? Could be gone in months due to an anti-trust remedy that will wipe out Mozilla's revenue. Edge? Based on Chromium. Safari? Apple will copy whatever Google does for cash, plus they also face losing a billion through their deal with Google on iPhones. You can fork the browsers and make your own non-paywalled browser but most people won't do that, they'll just revert to using apps on phones which to be honest, companies want you to do anyway as that way, they have control over their IP and service.
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  12. Or told WD-40 to stop using the term "rust" on their commercial products without permission of the Rust Foundation. I suspect any request will be met with a "see you in court".
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  13.  @no_name4796  YouTube is too busy shadowbanning and deleting my comments. Meanwhile the bots are free to post without consequence.
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  14. They might be shifting their financial model because they're going to lose the money Google pays them for being the default search engine after the anti-trust remedies are put into place in a few months time. This of course, also means that Firefox will follow Chrome in banning ad-blockers as that technology would fundamentally harm their new model.
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