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YouTube is slowing down for users with ad blockers in new wave (9to5google.com)
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[โ€“] wolo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Google owns Widevine, they would be paying a fee to themselves

[โ€“] gila@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

You're right. But then it's also their cost incurred. Their decryption keys to revoke on exploited devices, and their engineers to try and come up with a software patch for their hardware-level CDM. It's costly was my point.