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It starts with something palatable like anti-cheat systems.

But I look forward to video players using the TPM preventing screenshots or recording, and after that, websites preventing screenshots or copying text, and your bank verifying your browser before letting you log in.

Of course only a handful of large browsers will be supported or able to get licenses for the accompanying DRM code, but you can still use your 'free' browsers for less important things. Don't worry.

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> Of course only a handful of large browsers will be supported or able to get licenses for the accompanying DRM code, but you can still use your 'free' browsers for less important things. Don't worry.

You already can't login to, or use, Google accounts with unapproved browsers.

Windows has been forbidding screenshots for a long while now. If I remember it correctly, Windows 7 already did that.

Is that actually windows or just their crappy media player?

I take screenshots in Windows all the time. Maybe your keyboard is broken? ;)

This isn't really intentional. It happens because all 3d or MPEG rendering is hardware-accelerated these days; the pixels are written or decoded on the GPU and never exist in the framebuffer that Windows knows about. To take a screenshot of that, you need a media player or screenshot tool that knows how to dip into the hardware-accelerated rendering. The basic snipping tool can't do it. Steam generally can although it's not perfect.

> I look forward to video players using the TPM preventing screenshots or recording

Haven't browsers supported DRM for some time now? Anti-cheat like this has also been around for a long time, with the apocalypse you posit having failed to come to pass. This reads like a slippery slope fallacy to me.

And Netflix degrades video quality on untrusted platforms, and there is a host of apps that refuse to run on unlocked phones. Wide availability of TPM could be just what is needed to spread this to PCs - which are the exception among computing platforms in being open.

We're sliding down the slope right now. The fallacy is thinking the trend will stop, because.. well, surely this is the last step, right? Just like all the ones before it.

The was one webpage where I wanted to highlight->right click-> google a persons name but it wouldn't let me make a selection. Which was stupid because all of the text was unobfuscated plaintext HTML. What is even the point of such moronic systems that only serve to annoy the user.

That can be accidental, too. If you format text as `display:block` in CSS it is not selectable.

No this was very much deliberate. It has a js popup saying copying was not allowed.

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