You're claiming that I said something that I didn't. I never said that attestation was DRM, or that SafetyNet attestation in particular was DRM. Using it for this purpose is what I am referring to as DRM i.e. enforcing restrictions on what the user can do with the app or content.
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I also never said that DRM was inherently evil. A video game using attestation to implement anti-cheat is DRM. It prevents a user from doing something like using a modified client with color blind support. I don't think it's evil to do that, but I definitely do think it's DRM.
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You are still double-tweet-replying to each of my tweets. Stop.
You abused "DRM". Period, full stop.
You also seem to be excusing fraud. What else are we to use than the tech Google and FB use on their native stacks to get low fraud rates, vs. the JS tag-soup programmatic hell?
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Seriously? I can't spread out my response over 2 tweets? If you want to reply with 2 tweets you can do the same. If the character limit was still 140 characters, yours would be split across multiple tweets too. It's how I use the platform. A thought per tweet in multiple tweets.
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You cannot take this approach to debate and then get mad at me for needing to respond in multiple tweets:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gall
You keep repeating the claim I'm misrepresenting DRM or falsely calling it DRM but I think the majority of people would agree with my definition.
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I'm hardly the only person referring to these kinds of anti-fraud / anti-cheat mechanisms as DRM. It's standard practice to refer to anti-cheat / anti-modding as DRM:
pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Digital_r
I'm not the one being misleading and dishonest. That's you folks. Consistently now.
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No, you flunk EFF's DRM definition (eff.org/issues/drm). We do not prevent you from using your purchased+owned hardware and software as you see fit. We simply don't share ad revenue with you if safetynet says "nope!"
Without further explication you arrantly excuse ad fraud.
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That's one form of DRM. It's not the entire picture. Software trying to enforce restrictions on usage and trying to prevent it from being bypassed is what myself and many others refer to as DRM and it includes anti-fraud and anti-cheat mechanisms. To me, that's what it means.
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You're trying to police how myself and many others commonly use the language and the way that I've always chosen to use Twitter of sending multiple tweets, each with a separate thought just like writing a commit message. It's how I use it and will continue to use it indefinitely.
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No, Twitter polices by banning selectively. They're the cops. You and I are fellow citizens. I'm just replying to you. Mute me if you must; I'm sorely tempted to mute you. You have not corrected or retracted any of your errors ("enforced viewing", "the site with different ads").
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Those aren't errors. You're trying to spin things to make those distinctions, when in reality someone neutral is far more likely to agree with my interpretation rather than the corporate spin.
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No, you wrote those words, and they are false. Don't try to evade now by arguing unspecified "distinctions".
What "enforced viewing"? Ads are opt in.
What "the site with different ads"? We do not replace ads in pages.
You're in a hole. Stop digging!
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