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Unfortunately, since the W3C caved on EME and DRMs apis for videos (i.e. plugins), there is a possibility of seeing that scheme being extended to images or text content. They caved once, there is absolutely no guarantee they wont cave again in the future and put the interests of a few companies before the idea of a free web.

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That is worrisome but as always it's a standard thus not all browsers will implement on top of most browsers now have some way of configuring deeper settings like this to be disabled.

In the end the data goes to the user so a way would be found with or without Chrome or any of the other big wigs. What they should do is focus on how to brand it better so users know where it comes from - this would create a way to spread free idea's while giving credit where due and hopefully pushing the idea of the free web further.

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