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I don't think calling it DRM is a mislabel. It would say exactly the same thing about a video game using this feature to enforce that people don't block in-game advertisements or bypass the need to pay micropayments for features or virtual currency.

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BrendanEich

@BrendanEich

Jul 25, 2019

Replying to @DanielMicay @justsee and @bcrypt

You picked a fight. "DRM" abuse, then "enforced viewing". Ad fraud is real and the $320B/year growing to $1T system uses JS nonsense against it, fruitlessly except for the CYA shakedown artists who sell tag-level antifraud. G & FB use what you mislabel "DRM". We aim to as well.

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This is false. Without safetynet users still get Brave's baseline features: ad/tracker blocking, fingerprinting protection, cross-site referer blinding, &c. They even can opt into Brave Rewards and fund their own anonymous donations. They just can't take 70% ad revshare. Yeesh!

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I'm going to reply to my reply. You tweeted that we replace ads in page slots. False. You abused DRM to describe anti-fraud tech that limits only Brave user ads, which are opt in. These are either hugely ignorant errors on your part, or lies. No third way!

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Oh, so it's a problem when I do it, but you can do it. You're trying to make a subtle distinction about what it means to replace ads, and I don't agree with it. It's you that's being incredibly dishonest by misrepresenting my statements as false or dishonest when they're not.

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I didn't abuse the term DRM. It's the way the term is used among almost everyone that I speak to. I'm hardly the only one using the term to include features like anti-modding / anti-cheat / anti-fraud trying to stop the user from doing something with code on their device...

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I'm not lying, and what I said isn't wrong. Feel free to stick to your story but all you've done is given me some major motivation to write up something more substantial on this and turn it into a far bigger issue with how you've approached this. That's why I tweeted at all.

12:17 AM · Jul 26, 2019Twitter Web App

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You need to justify your claims. Write something if you like. Twitter is valid expression of truth-claims, at least at first and from putative good-faith actors. Live up to that.